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Red Monarch is a British film of genre Drama directed by Jack Gold with Colin Blakely
Red Monarch (1983)
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Add to a movie listRed Monarch is a 1983 British TV 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.
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.
Actors
Colin Blakely
(Stalin)
David Suchet
(Beria)
David Kelly
(Sergo)
Carroll Baker
(Ellen Brown)
David Threlfall
(Vasily)
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