The Death of Stalin is a 2017 English-language Comedy Drama film written by David Schneiderman, Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows. The movie is directed by Armando Iannucci and produced by Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader and Yann Zenou under the banner of Gaumont in collaboration with Quad Productions, Main Journey, France 3 Cinema, La Cie Cin matographique, Panache Productions, AFPI, Canal+, Cin +, France T l visions and Title Media. The death of stalin stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin and Julia Mulligan. The screenplay is written by Fabien Nury which is inspired from La Mort de Staline by Fabien Nury & Thierry Robin. The music was composed by Christopher Willis. Cinematography was done by Zac Nicholson and editing by Peter Lambert. The movie has a running time of 107 minutes. It was released on 20th October 2017 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. The Death of Stalin was made on a budget of $13 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $24 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Entertainment One Films. In early-1953 Moscow, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage. Inevitably, when his body is discovered the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic spreads like a virus among the senior members of the Council of Ministers as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and, ultimately, take power. But in the middle of a gut-wrenching roller-coaster of incessant plotting, tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin? Written by Nick Riganas