Red Monarch
Red Monarch | |
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Directed by | Jack Gold |
Written by | Charles Wood |
Produced by | David Puttnam |
Starring | Colin Blakely David Suchet David Kelly Carroll Baker David Threlfall |
Cinematography | |
Distributed by | Film4 Productions |
Release date | 16 June 1983 (UK) |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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.[1]
Red Monarch is a comedy based on , 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 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.[3]
References[]
- ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | RED MONARCH (1983)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ "The heirs of Stalin". Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poetry Archive. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ Eberts, Jake; Illott, Terry (1990). My indecision is final. Faber and Faber. p. 657.
External links[]
- Red Monarch at IMDb
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1983 films
- British films
- British black comedy films
- 1980s black comedy films
- Films directed by Jack Gold
- Films about Joseph Stalin
- Cultural depictions of Lavrentiy Beria
- British television films
- 1983 comedy films
- British television film stubs
- 1980s comedy film stubs