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In the Loop
Why this pick
Iannucci’s same machine-gun dialogue and institutional panic turn a looming war into a vicious farce of vain officials, procedural chaos, and escalating self-preservation.
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01 / THE STORY
In the Kremlin, no one can hear you scheme.
In the USSR in 1953, General Secretary Joseph Stalin is listening to a concert on the radio and orders that a recording of it be delivered to him. The concert has to be hurriedly repeated and recorded, but the pianist, Maria Yudina, hides a note to Stalin in the sleeve of the record, saying he has ruined the country. As Stalin reads the note in his dacha, he suffers a Intracerebral hemorrhage and becomes paralysed. The members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union are alerted. The first to arrive are Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union) (NKVD) head Lavrentiy Beria, who discovers Yudina's note, and Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov. As Malenkov panics, Beria encourages him to take the leadership, hoping to use him as a Puppet ruler.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Steve Buscemi
Nikita Khrushchev
Simon Russell Beale
Lavrenti Beria
Jason Isaacs
Field Marshal Zhukov
Jeffrey Tambor
Georgy Malenkov
Olga Kurylenko
Maria Veniaminovna Yudina
Andrea Riseborough
Svetlana Stalin
Paul Chahidi
Nicolai Bulganin
Adrian McLoughlin
Josef Stalin