The Death of Stalin (2017) quotes
Director
Armando Iannucci.
Cast
Simon Russell Beale.
Steve Buscemi.
Jeffrey Tambor.
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin takes ill and quickly dies.
I know the drill. Smile, shake hands and try not to call them cunts.
– Vasily Stalin
How can you run and plot at the same time?
– Kaganovich
My father… was a warm and mighty bear, and we are his 170 million orphaned cubs.
– Vasily Stalin
Right, what’s a war hero got to do to get some lubrication around here?
– Georgy Zhukov
Should we investigate…?
– Guard 1
Should you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed?
– Guard 2
I’ve had nightmares that made more sense than this.
– Kaganovich
Is there any cheese in this building?
– Lavrentiy Beria
You smell like rendered horse, you burning asshole!
– Nikita Khrushchev
All the best doctors are in the gulag or dead.
– Kaganovich
Nod as I’m speaking to you. People are looking to me for reassurance and I have no idea what’s going on.
– Georgy Malenkov
I don’t think any of these people ever heard of Mozart.
– Andreyev
I hate being sober it’s a terrible, terrible mood to be in.
– Vasily Stalin
I want to make a speech at my father’s funeral.
– Vasily Stalin
And I want to fuck Grace Kelly.
– Nikita Khrushchev
He’s not bad, he’s just ill.
– Svetlana Stalin
Don’t worry, nobody’s gonna get killed, I promise you. This is just a musical emergency!
– Andreyev
A modern soldier’s greatest fear, it’s not death, it’s not starvation, it’s chafing!
– Georgy Zhukov
Stalin would be loving this.
– Vyacheslav Molotov
Please don’t shoot me!
– Lavrentiy Beria
Wade carefully through the river because there are snakes and crocodiles.
– Svetlana Stalin
This is how people get killed, when your story don’t fit.
– Nikita Khrushchev
I will bury you in history!
– Nikita Khrushchev