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PRESENTS THE UK PREMIERE OF

TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER, 2017 AT CURZON CHELSEA RED CARPET AT BLUEBIRD, KINGS ROAD ATTENDED BY WRITER AND DIRECTOR ARMANDO IANNUCCI CO-WRITER DAVID SCHNEIDER ACTORS STEVE BUSCEMI, MICHAEL PALIN, JASON ISAACS, ANDREA RISEBOROUGH, PAUL WHITEHOUSE, OLGA KURYLENKO (TBC)

Media pens open: 4.30pm / close 5.30pm Photographers draw: 5.30pm Red carpet arrivals: 6.00pm Guests seated: 7.00pm

The internal political landscape of 1950’s Soviet Russia takes on darkly comic form in a new film by Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated writer/director Armando Iannucci. On the night of March the 2nd 1953, a man is dying. A terrible stroke is wracking his entire body. He is drooling. He is pissing himself. He is about to kick the bucket and if you play your cards right, his job is yours for the taking. The man is Joseph Stalin - dictator, tyrant, butcher, as well as Secretary General of the USSR. The Death of Stalin is a satire about the days before the funerals of the Nation’s Father. Days that shine a sardonic light on all the madness, depravity and inhumanity of totalitarianism. Days that will see the men surrounding him fight to inherit his supreme power. And it’s all based on true events.

A film that combines comedy, drama, pathos and political manoeuvring, The Death of Stalin is a Quad, Main Journey and Gaumont production, directed by Armando Iannucci, and produced by Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Assakovsky and Kevin Loader. To register for accreditation, please contact Matty O’Riordan / Madison O’Shields at Premier: [email protected] or Tel: +44 (0) 20 7292 8330 For all other film enquiries please contact please contact Matt Dinsdale at eOne: [email protected] or Tel: +44 (0) 203 691 8600 Clips and Materials: http://panther4.dmsukltd.com Cert: 15 Running Time: 106minutes Username: [email protected] Password: Letmein1

THE DEATH OF STALIN will be released in cinemas on 20 October 2017 by Entertainment One UK.