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This isn't actually the first film to deal with Stalin's death as farce or
satire. That would be the odd and not very good 1996 Australian film
Children of the Revolution. In this the proximate cause of the death of
Stalin's (F. Muuay Abrahams) was impregnating a visiting Australian
Communist (Judy Davis). Their son as a police union official went on to
take after the old man in 90s Australia. As well as Davis it starred other
Australian A-listers like Sam Neil, Geoffrey Rush and Rachel Griffiths. I
don't think anyone knew what to make of it including the distributors, who
gave the left organisations lots of freebies to the premiere, despite it
being clearly anti-socialist. From that came my negative review
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/laughs-wrong-places. The short version
is that the absurdist, satirical portrayal of the Kremlin is effective, but
that of recent history and the Australian far left is complete rubbish. The
writer-director Peter Duncan went on to make four seasons of the quite good
TV legal comedy-drama Rake. As a former lawyer he obviously knows the
corrupt and incestuous Sydney legal and political worlds a lot better than
he knew the far left (maybe he was an embittered red diaper baby, as I
otherwise couldn't understand the point of the movie at all).
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