Death of Stalin - Beria's Funeral (Coda)
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- The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows. Based on the French graphic novel La Mort de Staline, the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the members of Council of Ministers following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953. The French-British-Belgian co-production stars an ensemble cast that includes Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Dermot Crowley, Paul Chahidi, Adrian McLoughlin, Paul Whitehouse, and Jeffrey Tambor. The film premiered on 8 September 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom by Entertainment One Films on 20 October 2017, in France by Gaumont on 4 April 2018, and in Belgium by September Film Distribution on 18 April 2018.
Rest in pepperoni, comrade.
Encore! - Krátké a kreslené filmy
For any classical music enjoyers like my own persona, the piece used in the coda is Mozart's Piano Concerto №23 in A Major, 2nd Movement.
thanks!
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Kruschev once said his greatest achievement as Premier of the USSR was specifically because when he was replaced, he was simply forced to retire, not executed or "died" as previous heads of the USSR had. I presume he felt it best not to push the subject as he accepted his "retirement" without argument lol.
Yeah he understood how the game was played there and knew it was time to walk away instead of being buried in the ground.
The real Game of Thrones.
He set the precedent with Malenkov, retirement and exile.
Wait, which heads of the USSR before Khrushchev had been executed or otherwise killed? Krestinsky? Stalin died of natural causes (as far as we know) and Molotov outlived Khrushchev by like 15 years. Or are we talking high-profile political figures in general.
@@jameshagan2832before Krushchev, it didn‘t matter if you walked away. Other than the actual Trotskyists, the vast majority of Stalin‘s intra-party opponents recanted their criticism (even if it was minor) and accepted demotions or even exile. But still, all of them were killed. Of the several dozen Bolshevik leaders from the 1917-1923 period, the only ones that survived Stalin were Molotov and Alexandra Kollontai.
And that‘s not even mentioning the thousands of people who got purged despite never actually voicing opposition to Stalin‘s policies.
Krushchev‘s survival isn‘t down to deciding not to fight it out, it‘s because the Party was a fundamentally different organization after the deaths of Stalin and Beria. Not just specifically because of their deaths, but also because the surviving Bureaucrats understood that it was now longer necessary to allow for the existence of madmen like Beria. All serious threats to the party had long waned, and importantly they had integrated the Army leadership into their system.
“I will _bury you_ in history!”
Easily my most favorite line of the film.
He really did, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about history and I didn't know who Beria was until this movie
@@CoffeeTable-pq5kn You musn't be very knowledgeable about history then
It's a condensation of a quote he made towards the USA during a speech
"History is on our side, we will bury you!"
@@Pangloss6413apparently he meant we will “out live you” but he fucked up when translating
@@MausOfTheHouse did you know there is such thing as history outside of 20th century Eurasian politics?
Brezhnev looking over Chruchev's shoulder is gold.
Brezhnev smirking while looking at Khrushchev ❛❛You removed them? But who's gonna remove you?❜❜
Khrushchev's interaction with Svetlana is the moment I felt like, finally, someone was speaking truth. No more lies, no more convenient euphemisms, he tells her to shut up and listen to the truth for maybe the first time in her life. The cost of destroying the idea of truth, that's what I took this movie to be about.
This is why I love this film. The comedy cuts the truth clearer than I think anyone there could've have.
"The cost of destroying the idea of truth" See also: Chernobyl
@@Mackinstyle *Ukraine
Those Russians sure are backwards alcoholics.@@360Nomad
“The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we then? What else is left but abandon even the hope of truth, and content ourselves instead… with stories.”
“To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth we rarely stop to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is still there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this at last is the gift of Chernobyl. Where once I would have feared the cost of truth, now I only ask… What is the cost of lies?”
-Jared Harris as Legasov in Chernobyl (2019)
Brezhnev: *I have my eyebrows on you.*
That animal, Blundetto, at it again
I can't even say his name...
I never forget!
What were we talking about again?
I did 20 years in the Gulag.
@@ignacio1171dont be too hard on yourself
Your brother Lavrentiy, whatever happened there...
Stalins daughter actually had one hell of a life. She fled Russia via India, moved to the states, joined an architects cult, and her daughter is a pro-American biker chick.
Boy that was stupid....
lol
And ironically a Buddhist apparently.
Perhaps understandable, she doesn’t talk with her siblings much.
heavy William Hitler energy right there
The scene with Svetlana is probably the most defining moment of the movie, because it is the moment where there is finally some truth pushed around.
Svetlana turns to look at Kruschev as if he is the bad one. Even in this last moment, Svetlana appeals to the notion that Beria had about Nikita being the antagonist.
Nikita’s sobering response undercuts her, but the real question now looms: either Svetlana knew all along that Beria was the worst and was playing to his game as an innocent, or she truly did not understand the depth of evil in the system that benefited her, and she is truly shocked.
You have to accept that Svetlana is at least for the moment, lost. She either benefited from the system and delighted in her ignorance and enjoyed the privilege she had been borne into, or she knew it as much and still played the game and would have sided with Beria and this time she just happened to lose.
In either case, her statement to Nikita ignores the threat to his own life that Nikita felt. And had Svetlana sided with Beria and Beria won, would she had mourned all the same?
And that’s how Nikita benefits Svetlana even as she antagonizes him: he does the things that will protect her and her brother. Because what Svetlana wants is not conducive to them staying alive.
It has all become so contrived that they have to control the narrative to the point that they would have to kill her brother because the stories wouldn’t line up.
It’s really an amazing and sobering scene that ties in all of the truly dark humor of the film.
I love how much of a smart ass she is, even when Beria would have happily killed everyone in this scene if allowed to take power.
@@funkkymonkey6924 yup. She was either completely ignorant, or just more of the same and playing dumb the whole time and had chosen Beria.
In either case, she was playing innocent spectator when in reality she really had been a princess because of her father.
Now she had to come to terms with her role that was giving her perks also meant she could find herself being shot and discarded, because that’s how she got her privileges in the first place.
@@jrodri14iiShe could have also been entirely traumatized and Stockholm syndromed behind Beria as a coping mechanism
She defected and wrote a book. The fact that she did those two things instead of being murdered is telling. After she was useful, she was no longer useful, but not dangerous. If she were a threat to anyone she never would have been allowed to live, let alone write a book and defect. The "Secret Speech" was still in the future, she waited, she was very clever. She was after all, Stalin's daughter.
It seems cruel until you find out what Beria did before Stalin died.
Probably not a coincidence that Stalin made sure his daughter was ever around him after he found out about his crimes against women
The story of the real Vasily is scarcely better, not too long after his father died he was put in prison. He was there until 1960 and he basically drank himself to death after he was released.
Like so many Russians.
Actually sounds like the most Russian ending possible
yeah he was a truly sad story
One of the best movies in the last 10 years. Absolutely superb. Even after the 3rd watch still spotting new things
Kruschev went from class clown to head honcho quick
3:27 Brezhnev smirking while looking at Khrushchev: ❛❛So, you removed them? But who's gonna remove you?❜❜
I can't imagine the amount of relief everyone there must have felt.
The one line that always sticks in my head thinking about this movie, or the USSR as a whole (and pretty much encapsulates the movie)
"I never thought it would be you..."
You know it's a good movie if Russia bans it
Russians banned a lot of bad movies too
american think good movie is Steven Seagal Movie 😂😂😂😂
@@amvfreak5148 I'm pretty sure Steven Seagal movies are not banned in Russia, but promoted.
@@amvfreak5148 Funny considering Steven Seagal is best buddies with Putin and has honorary Russian citizenship lol
@@amvfreak5148funny because they literally welcomed that fat lard to Russia
What a crazy "comedy" this movie was.
Sometimes reality is just insane
If you knew the history, it was a howler. If you didn't, I wonder what one would make of it.
@@DDd-hr6mz they'd assume it was propaganda
Some fantastic actors in this film, it’s a classic that will get better with time
Just put it together that the wonderful Ukrainian actor Olga Kurylenko carries the role of the pianist, Maria Yudina. A fine thing for a Ukrainian artist to play beautiful music over the corpse of an NKVD operative and a vicious dictator.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
You should hope to never have the misfortune of meeting a ukrop
@@elricofmelnibone425I bet you voted blue
In the comic book version Death of Stalin; fictionally-Maria Yudina written a scathing letter to Joseph Stalin due to her family being placed in the gulags. It made him angry and a heart attack
The scene at the very end when we see the future leader Brezhnev I wonder when we see certain footage of Putin in modern day Russia, who will take over from him whether by election or rebellion?
Certainly NOT by election !
The country we all know as Russia, will probably die with Putin. I have no idea what comes next.
It's going to be really, really interesting to find out... hopefully we live long enough...
I don't think Putin will retire quietly. Most likely he'll follow Stalin's route and cling on tight until natural death
No fan of putin but I suspect the next guy will likely be worst but hopefully I am wrong and it will be another stalin to khrushchev situation but even that, as the movie shows, wasn't clean either.
The Soviet Union if it was run by the cast of Snatch.
Oh Knucky. You never change.
Love this movie.
Beria, one of the most evil monsters that mankind produced.
Then Brezhnev died and Andropov took over then Andropov died and someone else and so on
It was Chernenko after Andropov.
"Dead boy!" had to be improve.
Simon Russell Beale's quite a trouper here, bursting into flames in front of everybody
Song?
Mozart's Piano Concerto №23 in A Major, 2nd Movement.
"Never thought it would be you"
Yeah, nobody thought it would be Kruschev.
Why was Kruschev so eager to take power and become the new head of the Soviet Union? He completely outmaneuvered everyone in Stalins inner circle, when most of then were seen as one of the more likely candidates to take over.
@@Alex-bs1iuhe wanted to reform the system, some men just think their ideas are better.
In real life, Svetlana never left the Soviet Union until her defection to the United States in 1966, which caused a huge propaganda blow to the Soviet Union.
It was quick,but not that quick, beria was tried and executed in december of that year.
Funeral ? 😟😟
I remember the alt history scenario that andropov's major reforms begin few years later after the assessination of brezhnev on 1969
After Beira is shot the whole tone of the movie changes from black comedy and satire to harsh reality
I know why this was banned in Russia.
It's because of the massive historical inaccuracy: Breznev was still a relative nobody at that time and not even at Moscow, so he would not have sat behind the head of sate at Moscow.
@@SmartassX1yes and if there’s anything we know about modern Russia it’s how dearly they value truth 😂
@@SmartassX1 the ban was never about Brezhnev lol. Besides, it's not specified WHEN exactly is the scene with Brezhnev sitting behind Khrushchev happened. It might be 1960 or 1962 when he wasn't a nobody.
@@asdf33395The Russian people loved this movie. The government…Not so much. You can find a clip of an old babushka saying “It’s all true, I lived through it.”
You'd think they would have enjoyed it, it basically shows the post Stalinist Soviet leadership as a bunch of good blokes doing their best they can in a less than ideal situation. Also, far from defaming his legacy Zhukov in the movie is a super awesome badass on the side of justice, if a bit rough around the edges. Just like the real Zhukov.
Khrushchev may have been the greatest leader of the USSR. While stalin industrialized the nation, won ww2, and turned a nation of shoeless peasants into the 2nd strongest nation in the history of the world he also did so with an iron fist (and maybe he had too) and committed countless atrocities to do so. Khrushchev instituted much needed reforms post stalin and began the process of moving away from the worst excesses of the previous regimes while maintaining their status as one of 2 superpowers post ww2 and when it was time to walk away he didnt fight it risking plunging the nation into civil war he conceded def and went home to rest allowing for the 1st peaceful transfer of power in the short history of the USSR.
He made sure that the Soviet order would be sustainable after fatigue from the fast changes of the Revolution up to post WW2 and transition after to an era of consolidation (and later decay) in the next decades.
I wouldnt put it like that. The soviets might have mobilized russia to win ww2, but in the end the country collapsed because they didnt do well in developing an economy. All they did was infighting and dreaming
@@unowno123Have you any idea of why and how the soviet union actually ended?
Khrushchev was a revisionist who poisoned the soviet project with cynicism and used the secret speech to lay all the blame of all the conspirators at the feet of stalin, and gave way to the birth of the apparatchik as a class who choked the workers revolution to death and then in their own selfishness self destructed the entire union
@@unowno123the russian federation only succeeded the rsfsr in gdp in 2011, and hasn’t matched the gdp of the ussr to this day, with thirty years of capitalist economic management. clearly economically they were doing fine pre dissolution
Beria, whatever happened there....
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Who's got a light? 😂😂
Shit knowin ya
I don’t understand the depiction of Svetlana. I thought she was always a victim of Stalin, and acknowledged his evil.
Pretty sure this is an edit. I could've sworn the guy talking to khruschev said "can you every trust a *coward* ," not "weak man"
He says weak man. I own the movie and just checked it.
watched it in a different language maybe ?
Bodies don't burn that easily, ask Hitler and Eva.................oh, yeh, right, sorry.
Someday, there will be a movie made and it will be titled, THE DEATH OF PUTIN.
In the scale of things, Putin will never match a Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot or Hitler.
It is probably his greatest desire to be compared to Stalin but little Putin isn't fit to carry Stalin's jock, much less be anywhere in the same arena as Stalin. Putin at the end of the day is just another Beria wanna-be.
@@deanpd3402that we know of yet
@@DonLoco3about as good an analysis of putin as I have heard
@@DonLoco3 more like a Russian Mussolini
Couldnt tell if this was satire or serious
A bit of both, the best kind :)
Life is funny
There was no such expression as ‘conspiracy theories’ in 1953. That was phrase created in the 60s in response to Kennedy’s assassination.
Unless of course the Soviets thought of it first? 😮😊 Let’s face it they had a lot of conspiracies. Many of them weren’t theories though.
New York Times uses it in 1863. It enters popular use after the Warren Commission into the JFK assassination and is used several times in the Commission report.
Reminds me of the death of Cheese in the wire.
Putin was reelected, mega L.
Great movie! Lets communism destroy itself without effort. Every starry -eyed youngster beguiled by communism should watch this.
Now make an affectionate, whimsical movie about Hitler and the Nazi high command.
Didn't think so.
Jojo rabbit
not really. That's a kids fantasy a bit like life is beautiful.
It's not clearly affectionate to Hitler and the Nazis and making all the real world characters cute and witty. @@adamdavis6512
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Stick to your shower arguments
I wouldn't exactly call this movie affectionate or whimsical. Satire elements aside, it's pretty much as dark as can be.
personally, I thought "the Godfather part two" better...
Beria had rights, you know.
He doesn’t deserve anything after what he did with young girls
So did all the people he arrested and tortured.
The Constitution says you do!
So the children he abused
Saul?
“The Soviet Union was prefect and Communism is perfect…it’s failing we’re that if its previous leaders.” Pretty much the reason every new Soviet tyrant echoed as to why the Soviet Union is failing and communism (economic fairytale) fails…constantly!
Communism always falls apart, when the part comes where the citizens have to give up all there shit.
The USSR post stalin didn't really have any individual tyrants it was more rule by bureaucracy. Chernobyl illustrated this perfectly.
@@marccru the US embargo on Cuban trade started in 1958. China isn’t exactly as communist as it used to be, but the state still controls the economy far more than in the EU or US. Communism’s fall in the USSR was multifaceted and rather interesting, intersecting with an historic crash in the price of oil (and a Russian economy then as now too dependent on hydrocarbon production), social change, and political subterfuge.
Not only was the USSR not a communist society, it didn't even _claim_ to be a communist society. They claimed to be building socialism, with the eventual utopian end goal being to achieve communism. Now that was bullshit too, of course -- socialism is incompatible with imperialism, and whenever the two conflicted they chose to undermine socialism in service of maintaining the Russian empire -- but, you know.
I dont believe a single member of the politburo of the Soviet Union was a communist. Maybe they were when they started out - young and idealist. But by the time they reach that level the naive true believers will all have fallen away. Those guys were schemers, they were backstabbers, they were gangsters but most, most of all they were survivors. Each and every one of them was standing atop a pyramid of corpses of their own making. The doctrine is simply part of the rules of the game, to be utilised for their own selfish advantage. Even if such a thing as a benevolent dictator were possible, he would have the life expectancy of a mayfly before one of these vultures disposed of him. Unfortunately this is not a bug in the system - it's a feature.
Anti communist nonsense.
Horrible movie