''Red Monarch'' is a 1983 British television film starring Colin Blakely as Joseph Stalin. It is directed by Jack Gold and features David Suchet as Lavrentiy Beria and David Threlfall as Stalin's son Vasily Dzhugashvili, Vasily. ''Red Monarch'' is a comedy based on ''The Red Monarch: Scenes From the Life of Stalin'', a collection of short critical essays by the Russian dissident and former KGB agent Yuri Krotkov. The film depicts Soviet politics and the interplay between Stalin and his lieutenants, particularly Beria, during the last years of Stalin's rule. The reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "The Heirs of Stalin" in the final scene supposedly warns that the threat of totalitarianism is constantly present.

Cast

* Colin Blakely as Stalin * David Suchet as Beria * Carroll Baker as Brown * Ian Hogg (actor), Ian Hogg as Shaposhnikov * David Threlfall as Vasily * Nigel Stock (actor), Nigel Stock as Molotov * Lee Montague as Lee * David Kelly (actor), David Kelly as Sergo * Glynn Edwards as Vlasek * Peter Woodthorpe as Malenkov * Brian Glover as Khrushchev * Oscar Quitak as Mekhlis * Wensley Pithey as Voroshilov * George A. Cooper as Kaganovitch

Box office

Goldcrest Films invested £553,000 in the film and earned £292,000 making them a loss of £261,000.

References

External links

* 1983 films British black comedy films 1980s black comedy films Films directed by Jack Gold Films about Joseph Stalin Cultural depictions of Lavrentiy Beria 1983 comedy films 1980s English-language films 1980s British films British drama television films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub