Red Monarch

Red Monarch

101 mins | Comedy | June 16, 1983

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"

Red Monarch

101 mins | Comedy | June 16, 1983

Red Monarch
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Goldcrest, Enigma Productions
Original title Red Monarch
Directors Adrian Rawle, Gary White, Derek Harrington, Renée Glynne, Jack Gold
Writers Susan Richards, Charles Wood, Yuri Korotkov

Cast

Colin Blakely

as Stalin

David Suchet

as Beria

Carroll Baker

as Ellen Brown

Ian Hogg

as Shaposhnikov

David Kelly

as Sergo

Jean Heywood

as Sopha

David Threlfall

as Vasily

Lee Montague

as Lee

Glynn Edwards

as Vlasek

Nigel Stock

as Molotov

Brian Glover

as Nikita Krushchev

Wensley Pithey

as Voroshilov

George A. Cooper

as Kaganovitch

Peter Woodthorpe

as Malenkov

Freddie Earlle

as Mikoyan

Gawn Grainger

as Zamorsky

Oscar Quitak

as Mehklis

Jane Galloway

as Svetlana

Tim Preece

as Lukov

George Costigan

as Projectionist

Fred Lee Own

as Mao Tse Tung

Malcolm Terris

as Chairman of Physical Education

Eileen Helsby

as Nina

Susan Carpenter

as Seraphima

Paddy Joyce

as Akhmet

Virginia Balfour

as Housekeeper

Ceri Jackson

as Olga

Darren Gordon

as Young Josef

Flora Page

as Little Masha