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Red Monarch
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Wikipedia article
'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.
'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 as Shaposhnikov
* David Threlfall as Vasily
* Nigel Stock as Molotov
* Lee Montague as Lee
* 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
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