Red Monarch
| Red Monarch | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jack Gold |
| Produced by | David Puttnam |
| Written by |
Novel:The Red Monarch: Scenes From the Life of Stalin" (1979) Yuri Krotkov Screenplay: Charles Wood |
| Starring |
Colin Blakely David Suchet David Kelly Carroll Baker David Threlfall |
| Cinematography | Mike Fash |
| Distributed by | Film4 Productions |
Release dates | 16 June 1983 (UK) |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Red 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.[1]
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"[2] 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 Kruschev
- Oscar Quitak as Mekhlis
- Wensley Pithey as Voroshilov
- George A. Cooper as Kaganovitch
References
- ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | RED MONARCH (1983)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
- ↑ "The heirs of Stalin". Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry Archive. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
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