SIM Ep 799 Flicking #32: The Death of Stalin

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It’ll come as no surprise that our Hannah is a huge Armando Iannucci fan. And The Death of Stalin, his 2017 satire on the brutality and absurdity of tyranny and what happens in the aftermath of, in this case, the death of Soviet monster Joseph Stalin, is a firm favourite. Brimming with trademark Iannucci smarts, wit and creative insults, boasting a dream cast of big names, and darker than the inside of a cow, fellow Iannucci fans Mick and Yosra were bound to love it too. Well, you’d have thought. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were three ordinary women on what seemed like a simple mission to find a
0:06.6	film they liked. One where women got something to do and not just look pretty will
0:12.4	be murdered. Which to be totally honest has complicated matters abit. Welcome to
0:19.6	Flicking. Yes it sounds a bit rude that's the joke. Hello and welcome to Flicking
0:27.8	our monthly rattle around one of our favorite films. I am joined as ever by
0:33.9	Yosra Osman. Yosra, hello. Privileged. Oh look at you. And I'm really sorry to any of our Russian listeners if I've got that wrong.
0:41.7	I thought you sneezed but I liked it. I thought you said Pripyat. Pripyat.
0:47.9	Oh okay got you. I did my research but clearly not very well. Oh no but I just
0:53.2	think we didn't do our research. Welcome also to Hanna's and Levy. Hello you
1:00.2	clattering fannies. Hannah's also done a research and just you know
1:06.2	stating an obvious truth. Hannah it was your turn on the wheels of steel. What
1:10.8	did you have as watching this month? This month we watched The Death of Stalin,
1:16.0	Armando Ionucci's 2017 satire about spoiler alert, the immediate aftermath of the death of
1:24.3	the USSR's ruthless dictator in 1953. I mean obviously it's not spoiler alert. It's cast
1:32.7	looks like it can only be the result of taking a handful each from Tubbs label. Things like
1:39.8	the best of the stage. British comedy legends and quirky Hollywood and the
1:45.2	wildlife centric result shouldn't work but it absolutely does. Well for me
1:50.2	anyway we can discuss further in a bit. It was one of two giants of popular
1:55.7	culture in the 2010s that looked to the former Soviet Union to make a point
2:00.0	about the I've put this in quotes post-truth world we now occupy.
2:05.0	Unlike the other HBO's Chernobyl doing so made it the subject of extensive
2:10.0	scrutiny about historical accuracy and we can maybe talk about that in a bit.
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