Historian Gives The Real Story Of The Death Of Stalin - And Argues That A Film Comedy About It Was A Bad Idea
(ArtsJournal Theatre)

Richard Overy points out where Armando Ianucci`s new The Death of Stalin gets the history wrong but allows that cinematic license could be legitimate. But the caricature, he writes, is just wrong, and not only because Stalin`s victims deserve better: `The presentation of Stalin and his cronies as a collection of foul-mouthed misfits ... will […]