Death of Stalin - Beria's Funeral (Coda) 

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.

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.

Khrushchev in his speech to the party plenum was cussing Stalin. So from among the crowd some shouted 'why were you quiet then comrade'. Khrushchev stopped and asked 'please stand up and show yourself.' None stood up. Then Khrushchev said 'you see now why I kept quiet'.

Brezhnev looking over Chruchev's shoulder is gold.

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.

“I will _bury you_ in history!” Easily my most favorite line of the film.

Brezhnev: *I have my eyebrows on you.*

That animal, Blundetto, at it again

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.

It seems cruel until you find out what Beria did before Stalin died.

After Beira is shot the whole tone of the movie changes from black comedy and satire to harsh reality

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.

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.

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?❜❜

One of the best movies in the last 10 years. Absolutely superb. Even after the 3rd watch still spotting new things

I can't imagine the amount of relief everyone there must have felt.

Beria, one of the most evil monsters that mankind produced.

You know it's a good movie if Russia bans it

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

What a crazy "comedy" this movie was.

Some fantastic actors in this film, it’s a classic that will get better with time

"Never thought it would be you" Yeah, nobody thought it would be Kruschev.

"This is how people get killed: When their stories don´t fit!" - A piece of wisdom from Krushchev for Stalin´s daughter. Speech ability perk raised to 100.

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..."

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.

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.

Simon Russell Beale's quite a trouper here, bursting into flames in front of everybody

"Dead boy!" had to be improve.

Oh Knucky. You never change.

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?

It was quick,but not that quick, beria was tried and executed in december of that year.

The Soviet Union if it was run by the cast of Snatch.

Love this movie.

Then Brezhnev died and Andropov took over then Andropov died and someone else and so on

"Go back to Georgia, Dead-boy!" 😂

I remember the alt history scenario that andropov's major reforms begin few years later after the assessination of brezhnev on 1969

Song?

Zhukov was perfection in this.

I know why this was banned in Russia.

Funeral ? 😟😟

I don’t understand the depiction of Svetlana. I thought she was always a victim of Stalin, and acknowledged his evil.

Kruschev was no slouch. He was in charge of Ukraine and the army - Ukrainian Front - army of armies - and did well. He was crude and essentially a smart peasant with savviness.

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.

Who's got a light? 😂😂

Beria, whatever happened there....

The movie is not accurate. Beria received a show trial and was shot afterward.

Couldnt tell if this was satire or serious

Shit knowin ya

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"

Svetlana,do you know what happened to the ones your father helped to thrown out of power?it would happen to you and your brother too it would set a bad image to the world about SU's government

Bodies don't burn that easily, ask Hitler and Eva.................oh, yeh, right, sorry.

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.

Reminds me of the death of Cheese in the wire.

Someday, there will be a movie made and it will be titled, THE DEATH OF PUTIN.

✋بيريا هو المشرف على مشروع صنع القنبلة الذرية السوفيتية فهو خدم أكثر من🐕‍🦺 خروشيف الأوكراني الذي أعطى جزيرة القرم الروسية إلى أوكرانيا 💰

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Putin was reelected, mega L.

Now make an affectionate, whimsical movie about Hitler and the Nazi high command. Didn't think so.

Great movie! Lets communism destroy itself without effort. Every starry -eyed youngster beguiled by communism should watch this.

personally, I thought "the Godfather part two" better...

Anti communist nonsense.

Beria had rights, you know.

“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!

Horrible movie