The Death of Stalin

Solzhenitsyn was not interested at all in moral or political or biographical terms of reaching an understanding of Stalin's character. He was just interested in countering Soviet propaganda and belittling this figure who had been inflated the way he had been. To portray that regime's operatives, those around Stalin when he died, Beria, Malinkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Kaganovich, to portray them as venal corrupt politicians like we would find in any major city is not very intelligent. The people who ran the Soviet regime were not geniuses, but they weren't buffoons. And so the film for me falls short as a portrait of the reality there.