Playful satire on a government obsessed with ouster plots, lists, matrices and scapegoating, the paranoia that devours the tentacles of a regime built over the foundations of fear and state terror. Black comedies are great when you have the likes of Steve Buscemi, who here cartoonishly portrays Nikita Khrushchev, supported by the great theatre actor Simon Beale as the dangerous Lavrentiy Beria and a powerhouse cast which includes Monty Python's Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov, Jason Isaacs as Marshal Zhukov and Rupert Friend as Stalin's son Vasily.
