Synopsis
Comrade Stalin (Tovarishch Stalin, 2011) is a Russian historical series you can watch online on iFILM. It unfolds across the final months of the leader's life: he still holds power, but the plotting behind his back has already begun.
The Kremlin inner circle senses his time is running out, and the contest for his chair starts before the master has even cooled. Allies smile to his face and count their moves behind it; every conversation has a false bottom, every gesture can cost a head. Sergei Yursky plays the ageing dictator, and he is the chief reason to press play.
Director Irina Gedrovich skips the official portrait for the back rooms of power on the eve of its handover — a study of fear, calculation and the loneliness of a man everyone dreads and everyone is ready to write off. One for viewers drawn to political dramas of the Soviet era and its closed-door politics. Stream Comrade Stalin online on iFILM.
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