Red Monarch
5 / 10
English / 101 min. / 1983-06-16
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Storyline:
British comedy 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. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Cast:
Colin Blakely
as Stalin
David Suchet
as Beria
Carroll Baker
as Ellen Brown
Ian Hogg
as Shaposhnikov
David Kelly
as Sergo
Jean Heywood
as Sopha
David Threlfall
as Vasily
Lee Montague
as Lee
Glynn Edwards
as Vlasek
Nigel Stock
as Molotov
Brian Glover
as Nikita Krushchev
Wensley Pithey
as Voroshilov
George A. Cooper
as Kaganovitch
Peter Woodthorpe
as Malenkov
Freddie Earlle
as Mikoyan
Gawn Grainger
as Zamorsky
Oscar Quitak
as Mehklis
Bernard Gallagher
as Vovka
Jane Galloway
as Svetlana
Tim Preece
as Lukov
George Costigan
as Projectionist
Fred Lee Own
as Mao Tse Tung
Malcolm Terris
as Chairman of Physical Education
Eileen Helsby
as Nina
Susan Carpenter
as Seraphima
Paddy Joyce
as Akhmet
Virginia Balfour
as Housekeeper
Ceri Jackson
as Olga
Darren Gordon
as Young Josef
Flora Page
as Little Masha