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.
Plot
Red Monarch is a
black 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
Lavrentiy 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.
Box office
Goldcrest Films invested £553,000 in the film and earned £292,000 making them a loss of £261,000.
Cast
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