Red Monarch (1983)🔸

Red Monarch is a 1983 British television dark comedy drama film. It features Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Carroll Baker, Ian Hogg, David Kelly, David Threlfall, Lee Montague, Nigel Stock, Brian Glover, and George A. Cooper. A production satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. Red Monarch is 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.