Iannucci's 'The Death Of Stalin': Amid Chaos, Great Energy
Armando Iannucci directs this lacerating, frenetic dissection of the power vacuum left by Stalin's death. The director "never overtly winks at current parallels East or West. He doesn't have to."
Nobody shuts up for a nanosecond in , a wickedly gabby black comedy about the noxious power vacuum that followed the Soviet dictator's sudden collapse from a stroke in 1953. We've come to expect untamed banter from director Armando Iannucci, creator of and , and though he's not a credited writer on , which was adapted by his frequent collaborators David Schneider, Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows from two French graphic novels by Fabian Nury and Thierry Robin, and .
