@@charlesrussell8205These are literally all of the doctors they could find in the Moscow area, because, at least as far as the movie goes, every other doctor has already been rounded up, I think presumably for trying to kill Stalin/giving him subpar medical treatment. That’s why they make a big deal over the fact that the guys they‘ve rounded are retired, really young, old, etc., because they realllly had to scrape the bottom of the barrel with who was left. There’s another great scene right before this where the inner council is worried about what will happen if they choose a bad doctor for Stalin, and Kruschev is just like “well if he recovers that means we found a good doctor, if he doesn’t then we found a bad one but he won’t know that.”
@@akorn9943 It was based in reality. When Stalin had his stroke in real life, none of the doctors available wanted to operate on him for fear they'd be sent to gulags if he died on their operating tables.
@@charlesrussell8205 Stalin's final big plot/purge was aimed at doctors in the USSR - especially Moscow (a large share were Jewish), who Stalin claimed were plotting to kill him. While the purge did not reach the level of mass executions before Stalin died, by the time Stalin suffered his fatal stroke, most of the respectable doctors in and around Moscow had been removed from their jobs, arrested, imprisoned, some executed. The doctors still operating in the area were not exactly the cream of the crop.
If you didn't give answers when being questioned, then it meant you are hiding something. And that leads to torturing. It's just better to give whatever names right away.
so there is this old soviet joke Stalin and Beria want to drink together but Stalin cant find the bottle so Beria suggests that somebody has stolen it and starts his search later on they meet again Stalin sais i found it it rolled behind my desk Beria answers but I already executed 20 men on this case -but why -they all confessed
@@georgyekimov4577 Two East German police at the door knocking, tell the occupant "We just want to talk." Occupant asks them "How many of you are out there?" They answer "Two." Occupant says "Good, then you can talk to each other."
An American dog, a Polish dog and a Soviet dog sit together. The American dog says “In my country if you bark long enough, you will be heard and given some meat”. The Polish dog replies “What is ‘meat’?” The Soviet dog says “What is ‘bark’?”
I recall reading that the machine wouldn't even work because of the different outlets in the Soviet Union. I think that's rather ironic considering the whole context.
"How old are you?" "I'm.......old." "You're not old!" "You're not even a person! You're a testicle! You're made mostly of hair!" Omfg I spit at my screen laughing
2:35-2:36: “I won’t forget it.” Not what you want to hear from Beria. The doctor was undoubtedly greatly relieved when he heard of Beria’s execution, but I fear he never saw his dog again.
@@POKEMANZZ3yeah didnt happen irl, but in the movie all the doctors are executed, so are stalin's personal guards and his body doubles. The movie greatly exaggerates the real life events
The best dialog from "Death of Stalin" went something like this: Kaganovich: What do we do? All the good doctors in Moscow are dead! Bulganin: I know! We'll get a bad doctor!
It’s funny but also wasn’t true, only one of the victims of the Doctor’s Plot died. After Stalin’s death the charges against the doctors were dropped and Beria himself publicly exonerated them by decree in what was a cynical attempt to make himself look good.
"Who was that woman who testified in the Doctor's plot?" "Timasuk." "Right. She has all we need. The location of all the remaining doctors in Moscow area, and... A talent for fellatio." "Oh, she gets my vote." "And if it all goes South, we'll pin it all on lady suck-suck." "Then we shoot her." "You see? We work best as a committee."
I like how at first it may seem that Beria trusts the doctor's opinion, but then you realize that he's just looking for the first opportunity to declare Stalin dead and begin his path to ultimate power.
'through everything' yeah the prior 40 years of horror; Nazinski Cannibal island and Mass deportations, Blacklisting, Holodomor and Kazakh famines, The Great Purge, Polish Massacres, Kulak resettlement, Decossackization and the Red Terror, you think it's finally over the horrors are done and then the NKVD trucks show up for one last round up to fill their quotas and mainly they just like the thrill of hunting down people and it has become a habit...
one of these doctors is a model in my art class, interesting man, tricked his sons in law into building a summer house before letting them marry his daughters
My mom remembers the impact Stalin had on the USSR. She didn't laugh when watching the movie and actually grew uncomfortable with the atmosphere because it was pretty accurate about that entire deal with arrests, tortures, and the way the ruling elite treated people.
@Hell Fire3 No, man. You don't know how horrifying the Soviet Union was, especially so under at first Trotsky's directions of purges and then Stalin's Great Purge and in the fall-out of his death. Putin is nothing, a tiny happy puppy, next to the absolute horror and fear and menace that Stalin was. There are very, very few people in history who held the kind of absolute terror that Stalin manifested.
Yeah... it's a good dark humor movie that through timing and usage of characterization makes you both laugh and feel the terror, but I can imagine that those who really lived through it struggle to find the humor and would be uncomfortable. For what really was in the Soviet Union, it's absolute horror.
@Hell Fire3 Yes. Consider that every person in the film Death of Stalin is a mass murderer who had incredible power and violence, most of them monstrous and cold calculating killers with either zealous ideological purpose or self-interest. Now consider that every single one of them was so utterly terrified of Stalin that not one of them would ever say a single bad word of him in front of his corpse, that each of them had taken positions themselves as replacements for people who had previously slightly displeased Stalin or made him even slightly question their loyalties to the Soviet Union, who had made a singular failure or made him briefly suspect interests against him or the revolution. Stalin was a figure of abject terror.
@@pubcle I wouldn't be so tender about Putin's regiment. Let's say all his political opponents are either dead, imprisoned or far away from Russia trembling before a mere possibility of repeating Litvinenko's fate. Living in Russia is not scary until you actually have a solid opinion or demand political liberty meaning you'd like to express your disappointment or refusal of current politics. People are getting arrested and threatened just by holding a blank piece of paper, needless to say about protesters who actually gather peacefully on the streets against war in Ukraine. Of course, it's not Ussr, but we are getting closer to recreating it day by day.
@@dane4kka Oh don't get me wrong, Putin is awful, but it's like comparing Xi Jinping to Mao. Of course both engage in horrific evil, genocidal in those two's case, but one is killing thousands and oppressing people more through fear and ignorance, and the other is on the scale of tens of millions. Trotsky as well would match them in horror if he got the opportunity, probably even outstrip Stalin's rate, both Stalin and Trotsky are both monstrous genocidal fanatics. Putin is monstrous and has instilled a horrible police state, but he's not a fanatic or genocidal.
Kruschev was giving a speech to the party members denouncing Stalin and his brutal tactics, someone in the crowd yelled "You were with him, why didnt you stop him then?..." Kruschev leaned forward and stated loudly "Who said that?!.." and there was a long silence, then he simply said "You see why.."
@@Tugela60 A lesser demon is an angel among Satans. You continuously make the best choice amongst the worst options. Saying 'they're all bad' absolves you of your responsibility to attempt to make things better.
@@jmlkinc No. A demon is a demon. None of them have halos. Just because you only killed a thousand innocent people instead of a million does not make you a good guy.
@@Tugela60 Most people don't get the luxury of a 'good' candidate. Politics is constantly chiseling your way out to freedom. If you need a perfect candidate or nothing, you will consistently end up with worse and worse leaders wondering why this happened.
Both of you have a point. Doing lesser evil actions or "justifiably" evil actions does not make you any less horrible-but at the same time, you can always try to do better, be better, and if that fails, at least minimize the damage. If you accept that you're a bad person and all you can do are bad things, what's the point of inhibition? Might as well go all the way. It's a very dangerous thing to tell someone.
@@keyabrade1861 Anarcho-communism is an oxymoron. It's nonsense for what the Soviets called "useful idiots" people, often smart people who just never thought about where it leads, that they considered tools to bring forth the revolution and to be lined up and shot later.
@@liamwright2510 yeah, sure. it just would be a challenge to hit such a jackpot again, having to replace most of the cast :) I wouldn't mind seeing them try though
I think a screenplay for the Death of Mao could work fantastically, as the situation was very similar to Stalin's death and there was likewise an impressive power struggle.
I have long been affixed upon the question of why the Russian Federation has such a disproprotionate number of free-ranging dogs in its urban centers. Viewing this delightful black comedy, I have formed the hypothesis that those all-too-common scenes throughout the Stalinist period, as depicted in 0:18, strongly contributed to the issue.
It’s the terrifying nature of their system contrasted with the laid back and comedic performances that makes this movie both incredibly funny and incredbily horrific
The man who looks dead/the man made mostly of hair is very suspicious to me. Of all the doctors, he seems to play the biggest role without even saying a word. Was that a smirk on his face when he saw Dr Lukomsky? Why did he have the report before giving it to Dr Lukomsky (who then handed it to the alleged 29-year-old man)? Unlike the "old" man and the testicle, the man made mostly of hair appears to be doing nothing more than ducking during Vasily's outrage. All we do know is that he shakes hands with Dr Lukomsky and then gets trucked away. Who is the man who looks dead/the man made mostly of hair?
"Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end!" There are many insane Russians who (Putin) celebrate these times! Had a neighbor you didn't like, someone you owed a debt, call NKVD, not so secret police! Disappeared!
Communism and/or Socialism, for all its supposed ideals, so far has proven to be nothing but authoritarian dictatorship that exists to feed itself, using lies and obfuscation and fear to keep itself in power. It's this way in every country that implements it, from Russia to China to Venezuela to North Korea, with varying degrees of evil. Even after reading about it and seeing this movie I never really appreciated how evil the Soviet Union was until these past few weeks (i.e., Feb. 24 to now).
@@wnwkrodb3b Putin's a notorious Soviet sympathizer, having grown up during the era himself as a KGB operative in a position of relative power. Even if the Union is technically disbanded, he employs and has been employing for who-knows-how-long similar tactics of subterfuge, censorship, dictatorship, and assassination that were prevalent from Stalin's time 'till 1991. The fact that he's fooling a good portion of Russians into thinking his actions are justified, and that he can wage war against a sovereign state with little resistance from its neighbors (thanks to his nuclear arsenal) is what really drives home the point that even if the Soviet Union was technically disbanded, its cruelty lives on in a group of old farts with tremendous political power.
What’s scares me about the first scene is how under any other circumstances, the doctor would’ve actually been taken to be tortured or executed. Talk about being at the right place at the right time. Same goes for the elderly conductor at the beginning of the film and the prisoners released by Beria.
Yeah, that scene always tears me up a little. An old man, who's most likely done nothing wrong in his life, struggling to run away from the much fitter and younger soldiers, knowing he has no chance and is absolutely terrified about what's going to happen to him
It was the Doctors' Plot. The Doctors in and around Moscow were rounded up much b4 Stalin's fatal stroke. After Stalin suffered a serious Stroke, no Doctor was available to treat him but after his death, most of the imprisoned Doctors were released by Beria and the rest were released by Khrushchev.
Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I find myself watching scenes every few weeks and then just watch the whole film. I wish they had a bloopers reel or if it was a tv show just to have it be longer. It’s superbly underrated
"Why i always encountered tyrants (signh) maybe i should "restore the republic" from here once i get out of this frozen hell" -Cato the soviet doctor plotting for his revenge
They didn’t in real life and I don’t think they do in the movie either, at least not all of them as you can see some in the trucks leaving Stalin’s house
In the script, it's Stalin's body doubles but it's hard to tell with the movie. It looks like some randomly selected dacha staff chaps to me. The doctors were put on the trucks and so were most of the dacha staff.
In real life the killing of doctors ended after Stalin's death. The "Doctor's Plot" was declared a fabrication by the new Soviet leadership, and the doctors still in prison were released.
Yeah, if you ever read about the purges it's almost ludicrous. Stalin had set regional quotas for executions (which if a regional leader didn't meet or exceed, would be himself executed). But there just weren't enough dissenters to fill these quotas so people would get arrested or executed for almost anything. You had to fill your quota one way or another.
Your grandmother made a big mistake when she said that. I was able to talk to several people who lived during Stalin's rule. They compared it with the period when the revolution took place in 1917 and later. They remembered Stalin with gratitude, because during his reign the order in Russia was iron and they appreciated it. 🤷♂️
@@АлексейКузьмин-й8ъ Thats again quite subjective as many ppl who hated him at the time of his death grew to love him while those who mourned his death eventually came to despise him. The Soviet ppl's opinion about Stalin varies from person to person. It depends on the era in which that particular person was born, their occupation, social class, family history and general life under Stalin.
@@ruturajshiralkar5566 Yes, it definitely is. I understand this because I was born in the Soviet Union, my parents were born shortly before Stalin's death, and my grandparents lived with him at the same time. It was a very difficult and uncertain time. From the stories of people who lived at that time, I know one thing for sure: not everything in our life depends on one person. Stalin was a very controversial person and I think historians will argue for a long time about his role not only in the history of our country, but also in world history ...🤷♂️
"Thick skull. Incredibly strong."
Even when he's dead, they're so scared that they're complimenting him.
I finally did it
There's a bullet mark on that statues hat.
You could almost say it's made of steel
@@cashewnuttel9054 And?
It could be a coded way of calling him an idiot.
„We have all the doctors there is no other opinion“
He isn‘t even exaggerating.
Wdym?
@@charlesrussell8205These are literally all of the doctors they could find in the Moscow area, because, at least as far as the movie goes, every other doctor has already been rounded up, I think presumably for trying to kill Stalin/giving him subpar medical treatment. That’s why they make a big deal over the fact that the guys they‘ve rounded are retired, really young, old, etc., because they realllly had to scrape the bottom of the barrel with who was left. There’s another great scene right before this where the inner council is worried about what will happen if they choose a bad doctor for Stalin, and Kruschev is just like “well if he recovers that means we found a good doctor, if he doesn’t then we found a bad one but he won’t know that.”
@@akorn9943 It was based in reality. When Stalin had his stroke in real life, none of the doctors available wanted to operate on him for fear they'd be sent to gulags if he died on their operating tables.
@@charlesrussell8205 Well Stalin Killed most of the Doctors in the USSR
@@charlesrussell8205 Stalin's final big plot/purge was aimed at doctors in the USSR - especially Moscow (a large share were Jewish), who Stalin claimed were plotting to kill him. While the purge did not reach the level of mass executions before Stalin died, by the time Stalin suffered his fatal stroke, most of the respectable doctors in and around Moscow had been removed from their jobs, arrested, imprisoned, some executed. The doctors still operating in the area were not exactly the cream of the crop.
Much underrated film, it's hilarious. The doctor's patter as he's being led away to the van is perfection. "I can give you names.", lol...
If you didn't give answers when being questioned, then it meant you are hiding something. And that leads to torturing. It's just better to give whatever names right away.
Clown, who tf "underrated" this movie?!
so there is this old soviet joke
Stalin and Beria want to drink together
but Stalin cant find the bottle
so Beria suggests that somebody has stolen it and starts his search
later on they meet again Stalin sais i found it it rolled behind my desk
Beria answers but I already executed 20 men on this case
-but why
-they all confessed
@@georgyekimov4577 Two East German police at the door knocking, tell the occupant "We just want to talk." Occupant asks them "How many of you are out there?" They answer "Two." Occupant says "Good, then you can talk to each other."
An American dog, a Polish dog and a Soviet dog sit together. The American dog says “In my country if you bark long enough, you will be heard and given some meat”. The Polish dog replies “What is ‘meat’?” The Soviet dog says “What is ‘bark’?”
I love how both of stalins kids don’t believe the young doctor and just dismiss his age lol
The old guy keeps getting yelled at too
well that's because he's not even a PERSON
They hate Jews because Stalin wanted to do the same thing that Hitler did.
Holocaust in Soviet
@@marshmallowbudgiehe’s a testicle, and he’s mostly made of HAIR!
@@marshmallowbudgie And the other made mostly of hair!
“It’s American”
“It’s from his hospital”
“It was his idea”
this is how russians killed 20 milions russians - it's that logic
"It's communism."
I recall reading that the machine wouldn't even work because of the different outlets in the Soviet Union. I think that's rather ironic considering the whole context.
Alright, let's just pretend these last six sentences never happened.
@@zdude11 The outlet has nothing to do with a machine working. Surely they would have had an electrician or handyman to change the plug.
"How old are you?"
"I'm.......old."
"You're not old!"
"You're not even a person! You're a testicle! You're made mostly of hair!"
Omfg I spit at my screen laughing
The ice hockey scene is another classic.
“PLAY BETTER YOU CLATTERING FANNIES!!!”
I’ve shouted that at the England football team more than once.
"I'm... old" that one got me good
I’m 20….9
@@kayzeaza "That's a lie. How old are you? You're DEAD"
And 2:06
"I'm... old..."
he figured out saying 29 wasn't believable lmao
"I'm twenty. Nine." Cracks me up every time.
An american orders a beer
"He's delusional, take him to the infirmary."
@@SaphirKnight Sickness from the feed water. He’ll be fine. I’ve seen worse.
"thats a lie."
@@banjo3960 was she saying that he's older or younger?
2:35-2:36: “I won’t forget it.” Not what you want to hear from Beria. The doctor was undoubtedly greatly relieved when he heard of Beria’s execution, but I fear he never saw his dog again.
All of the doctors were executed in that last scene
I thought he said "I will forget it".
@@ClassicalRips given the old doctor here is Dr. Lukomsky, no they wernt executed least IRL, Lukomsky was alive at least as late as 1961 still so.
@@POKEMANZZ3yeah didnt happen irl, but in the movie all the doctors are executed, so are stalin's personal guards and his body doubles.
The movie greatly exaggerates the real life events
@@blackpaint9093not really, you can see the doctors on the trucks right at 4:06, the ones on the ground are probably Stalin’s doubles
"Are they going to sing for us? Why are they all standing in a line." That line gets me every time lol
'We have all the doctors, there is no other opinion' might be the most Soviet line ever.
The best dialog from "Death of Stalin" went something like this:
Kaganovich: What do we do? All the good doctors in Moscow are dead!
Bulganin: I know! We'll get a bad doctor!
Kruschev: We’ll if he wakes up we got a good doctor, if he doesn’t we got a bad one but he won’t know.
It’s funny but also wasn’t true, only one of the victims of the Doctor’s Plot died. After Stalin’s death the charges against the doctors were dropped and Beria himself publicly exonerated them by decree in what was a cynical attempt to make himself look good.
This is classic dark comedy one of the better new movies no cgi crap no naked women only good actors and a superb script
"Who was that woman who testified in the Doctor's plot?"
"Timasuk."
"Right. She has all we need. The location of all the remaining doctors in Moscow area, and... A talent for fellatio."
"Oh, she gets my vote."
"And if it all goes South, we'll pin it all on lady suck-suck."
"Then we shoot her."
"You see? We work best as a committee."
Idiots, all doctors still live after doctor's criminal case. History lies.
I like how at first it may seem that Beria trusts the doctor's opinion, but then you realize that he's just looking for the first opportunity to declare Stalin dead and begin his path to ultimate power.
_"I won't forget it."_ - I just love the double meaning of Beria's response.
Tenían otro sentido, yo no lo encontré, explicame por favor 😅
Just as they thought they got through everything with their lives, the NKVD came and carried them away to work camps in Siberia.
_Just when I thought I was out... They pull me back in_
some of them were simply shot
Siberia? Oh you sweet summer child....so naive....
Are you serious.
'through everything' yeah the prior 40 years of horror; Nazinski Cannibal island and Mass deportations, Blacklisting, Holodomor and Kazakh famines, The Great Purge, Polish Massacres, Kulak resettlement, Decossackization and the Red Terror, you think it's finally over the horrors are done and then the NKVD trucks show up for one last round up to fill their quotas and mainly they just like the thrill of hunting down people and it has become a habit...
one of these doctors is a model in my art class, interesting man, tricked his sons in law into building a summer house before letting them marry his daughters
Absolute Chad
Plus he's a doctor. Wow
genius
That's some Jacob and Laban tier trickery right there
Which one
More understandable as a Russian Dr than as a Gloucestershire police constable.
“I’ve had my top off in this lay-by.”
“Tits”
I suppose...
@@jerubaal101 Yes. I Suppose
@Paul Yoxy aaa 'spose.
@Paul Yoxy he is referring to the main doctor being the incomprehensible farmer in Hot Fuzz
Wow.. Cato reincarnated and became a doctor under Stalin administration. Serves him right for going against Caesar.
@Čien Vander Jan Breytenbach lol
Thank you! Could not place who that was in other movies.
@Čien Vander Jan Breytenbach TTEFFF...MURDEERERER.
Not even after 2000 years can he escape that
Damn. No wonder he looked and sounded familiar. 😂
My mom remembers the impact Stalin had on the USSR. She didn't laugh when watching the movie and actually grew uncomfortable with the atmosphere because it was pretty accurate about that entire deal with arrests, tortures, and the way the ruling elite treated people.
@Hell Fire3 No, man. You don't know how horrifying the Soviet Union was, especially so under at first Trotsky's directions of purges and then Stalin's Great Purge and in the fall-out of his death. Putin is nothing, a tiny happy puppy, next to the absolute horror and fear and menace that Stalin was. There are very, very few people in history who held the kind of absolute terror that Stalin manifested.
Yeah... it's a good dark humor movie that through timing and usage of characterization makes you both laugh and feel the terror, but I can imagine that those who really lived through it struggle to find the humor and would be uncomfortable. For what really was in the Soviet Union, it's absolute horror.
@Hell Fire3 Yes. Consider that every person in the film Death of Stalin is a mass murderer who had incredible power and violence, most of them monstrous and cold calculating killers with either zealous ideological purpose or self-interest. Now consider that every single one of them was so utterly terrified of Stalin that not one of them would ever say a single bad word of him in front of his corpse, that each of them had taken positions themselves as replacements for people who had previously slightly displeased Stalin or made him even slightly question their loyalties to the Soviet Union, who had made a singular failure or made him briefly suspect interests against him or the revolution. Stalin was a figure of abject terror.
@@pubcle I wouldn't be so tender about Putin's regiment. Let's say all his political opponents are either dead, imprisoned or far away from Russia trembling before a mere possibility of repeating Litvinenko's fate. Living in Russia is not scary until you actually have a solid opinion or demand political liberty meaning you'd like to express your disappointment or refusal of current politics. People are getting arrested and threatened just by holding a blank piece of paper, needless to say about protesters who actually gather peacefully on the streets against war in Ukraine. Of course, it's not Ussr, but we are getting closer to recreating it day by day.
@@dane4kka Oh don't get me wrong, Putin is awful, but it's like comparing Xi Jinping to Mao. Of course both engage in horrific evil, genocidal in those two's case, but one is killing thousands and oppressing people more through fear and ignorance, and the other is on the scale of tens of millions. Trotsky as well would match them in horror if he got the opportunity, probably even outstrip Stalin's rate, both Stalin and Trotsky are both monstrous genocidal fanatics. Putin is monstrous and has instilled a horrible police state, but he's not a fanatic or genocidal.
Kruschev was giving a speech to the party members denouncing Stalin and his brutal tactics, someone in the crowd yelled "You were with him, why didnt you stop him then?..." Kruschev leaned forward and stated loudly "Who said that?!.." and there was a long silence, then he simply said "You see why.."
Kruschev was no angel either. They were all brutal thugs.
@@Tugela60 A lesser demon is an angel among Satans. You continuously make the best choice amongst the worst options.
Saying 'they're all bad' absolves you of your responsibility to attempt to make things better.
@@jmlkinc No. A demon is a demon. None of them have halos.
Just because you only killed a thousand innocent people instead of a million does not make you a good guy.
@@Tugela60 Most people don't get the luxury of a 'good' candidate. Politics is constantly chiseling your way out to freedom.
If you need a perfect candidate or nothing, you will consistently end up with worse and worse leaders wondering why this happened.
Both of you have a point. Doing lesser evil actions or "justifiably" evil actions does not make you any less horrible-but at the same time, you can always try to do better, be better, and if that fails, at least minimize the damage.
If you accept that you're a bad person and all you can do are bad things, what's the point of inhibition? Might as well go all the way. It's a very dangerous thing to tell someone.
What a brutal time to be living through. Everyone was killing everyone in an environment of perpetual fear.
that's communism for ya
Russia
@@robfox6103 not sure how economics is relevant, it was a corruption issue due to a sudden vacuum in an autocracy and happens regardless of ideology
@@keyabrade1861 Anarcho-communism is an oxymoron. It's nonsense for what the Soviets called "useful idiots" people, often smart people who just never thought about where it leads, that they considered tools to bring forth the revolution and to be lined up and shot later.
@@pubcle Read about the Ukrainian Black Army.
We know not to ally with the Reds now. It was a lesson hard-learned but well-learned.
I always lose it at the "You're not even a person, you are a testicle"
Cato can't seem to take a break can he?
I KNEW HE SEEMED FAMILIAR
YOU HAVE LOST STALIN WITHOUT UNSHEATHING YOUR SWORD! YOU’VE LOST STALIN!
First Caesar and now Stalin.
@@ardensvirens Some kind of rare species victory though.
"HE WANTS TO RULE THE SOVIET UNION... AS A BLOODY TYRANT!" -Cato, Soviet doctor
3:17 love how as soon as Vasily enters, the group unanimously groans at his mere existence
Could a screenplay writer prepare a sequel with these characters during the October 1962 Cuban Missile crisis?
nice idea, although most of THESE characters wouldn't be around anymore if the story was set in 1962.
@@vibovitold you would have new characters as well as Khruschev though
@@liamwright2510 yeah, sure. it just would be a challenge to hit such a jackpot again, having to replace most of the cast :) I wouldn't mind seeing them try though
@@vibovitold prequel during the great purge of late 30s would b great....
I think a screenplay for the Death of Mao could work fantastically, as the situation was very similar to Stalin's death and there was likewise an impressive power struggle.
3:26 Me trying to get served as a teenager
I feel so bad for that dog lol
He was the lucky one. Rest o them died.
Dog's an idiot, kept walking without the master
I thought he was lucky they didn't shoot him. After all, they WERE the NKVD.🙄
No loyalty, just let the dog run free into this mad world as it pleased.
Dog probably understood that sticking around would have invited a bullet.
Nice to see that Cato found himself a new job after the debacle against Caesar in Africa.
Oh that's where he is from! I was trying to recall where I'd seen his face
@@TheImperialSenate I was happy when I saw him
“Where to go to now”
“The edge of the earth”
“What’s there?”
“Ice…. People?”
“Edge of the Earth then!”
@@TheImperialSenate Same.
Bruh even the dog knew the situation was bad and walked away.
I have long been affixed upon the question of why the Russian Federation has such a disproprotionate number of free-ranging dogs in its urban centers. Viewing this delightful black comedy, I have formed the hypothesis that those all-too-common scenes throughout the Stalinist period, as depicted in 0:18, strongly contributed to the issue.
I like how the siblings abuse the doctors the same way! Haha
Amazing childhood!
I can't believe they would kidnap an upstanding senator of the Republic of Rome like Cato like that while he is walking his dog.
Yes, we get it. You saw an actor in another film, and you're showing off.
@@briancrawford8751 You must be fun at parties.
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME
"It's not the dog we need..."
"I can give you names" "i have never seen them before" the Duality of man
The guy who's not old, the "testicle" and the man "made mostly of hair" make an appearance at 0:49.
"How old are you?"
"I'm old"
"YOU'RE NOT OLD!"
my man cant catch a break
i love how both stalin's children insults the doctor the same way...
It’s the terrifying nature of their system contrasted with the laid back and comedic performances that makes this movie both incredibly funny and incredbily horrific
"We're feeling fine, if you're wondering."
You don't need a doctor, then?
When Cato stops opposing Caesar and fled to USSR and became a doctor
Props to stalin for the acting, he really knew how to act dead ngl, it's like he's not even breathing! hell even the brain scene was just realistic!
They had the actual actor killed for this. Props to him for volunteering for the role!
It was his idea! He just came up with it one day on set
I love that Svetlana freaks out at the doctors just like vasily.
Lmao the doctors passing the clipboard are literally the resident doctors you see presenting case to their attendings.
The man who looks dead/the man made mostly of hair is very suspicious to me. Of all the doctors, he seems to play the biggest role without even saying a word. Was that a smirk on his face when he saw Dr Lukomsky? Why did he have the report before giving it to Dr Lukomsky (who then handed it to the alleged 29-year-old man)?
Unlike the "old" man and the testicle, the man made mostly of hair appears to be doing nothing more than ducking during Vasily's outrage. All we do know is that he shakes hands with Dr Lukomsky and then gets trucked away.
Who is the man who looks dead/the man made mostly of hair?
I don't know but it makes me want to take a massive shit just thinking about it, I'm going to go take a shit right now
joe mama
OK
@@UnlistedThoughts Do I have your permission?
@@jakelee5096 It depends all on what ya gonna do with it, mate
lmao despite their generally distinctive dispositions, Svetlana and her brother do share commonalities in insulting the doctors
"These are good doctors, my dear"
"....They look like mental patients."
"They look like mental patients" Hahahaha, "Relax I am not going to kiss you" :D Hahahahah Pure Gold.
I didn't know I needed this, thank you
The dog: "I don't know that guy! I never met him!"
"Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end!" There are many insane Russians who (Putin) celebrate these times!
Had a neighbor you didn't like, someone you owed a debt, call NKVD, not so secret police! Disappeared!
Everyone who disapproved were killed.
and other fairy tales you tell kids before sleep
@@WM-gf8zm Yeah man, the Soviet Union wasn't dictatorial and they never killed anyone.
Fuck off.
@@WM-gf8zm It is true in Nazi-held territory people also did this a lot. Write an anonymous letter and your neighbour would dissapear easily.
@YourRationalWorldisaCircleJerk exactly, putin is bootleg tsar
In the "good old days" of the USSR, being the first one in a crowd to stop clapping for Stalin might yield you a "tenner".
I watched this in theaters when it was new. It's satire seems much sharper, and scarier now.
Communism and/or Socialism, for all its supposed ideals, so far has proven to be nothing but authoritarian dictatorship that exists to feed itself, using lies and obfuscation and fear to keep itself in power. It's this way in every country that implements it, from Russia to China to Venezuela to North Korea, with varying degrees of evil. Even after reading about it and seeing this movie I never really appreciated how evil the Soviet Union was until these past few weeks (i.e., Feb. 24 to now).
@@mordekaihorowitz Lol, Russia is oligarchy state, not socialist
@@mordekaihorowitz what do the past few weeks have to do with the soviet union?
@@ratrakksstar4420
Socialism is oligarchical
@@wnwkrodb3b Putin's a notorious Soviet sympathizer, having grown up during the era himself as a KGB operative in a position of relative power. Even if the Union is technically disbanded, he employs and has been employing for who-knows-how-long similar tactics of subterfuge, censorship, dictatorship, and assassination that were prevalent from Stalin's time 'till 1991. The fact that he's fooling a good portion of Russians into thinking his actions are justified, and that he can wage war against a sovereign state with little resistance from its neighbors (thanks to his nuclear arsenal) is what really drives home the point that even if the Soviet Union was technically disbanded, its cruelty lives on in a group of old farts with tremendous political power.
Rofl at 3:10!!!
It’s from his hospital!
It was his idea!
Bona Dea! So Cato didn't die in the privy. After his lifelong career of criticizing Caesar, he goes on to do the same to Stalin.
3.11. The guy on the left is Dan Booroff, we went to drama school together, he's a lovely guy! Small world..
Dog said ‘I’m out…seen this before’
😅LMAO
I love that Svetlana and Vasily both insult the one doctor's age.
What’s scares me about the first scene is how under any other circumstances, the doctor would’ve actually been taken to be tortured or executed. Talk about being at the right place at the right time.
Same goes for the elderly conductor at the beginning of the film and the prisoners released by Beria.
Yeah, that scene always tears me up a little. An old man, who's most likely done nothing wrong in his life, struggling to run away from the much fitter and younger soldiers, knowing he has no chance and is absolutely terrified about what's going to happen to him
It was the Doctors' Plot. The Doctors in and around Moscow were rounded up much b4 Stalin's fatal stroke. After Stalin suffered a serious Stroke, no Doctor was available to treat him but after his death, most of the imprisoned Doctors were released by Beria and the rest were released by Khrushchev.
Just an amazing film, it's so enjoyable: The casting, direction, acting are all superior.
2:10
Sveltlana :How old are you
Cato the soviet doctor :2117 year
Even the dog is beautifully cast!
Poor Cato...escaped Caesar....and then wound up in Soviet Russia.
Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I find myself watching scenes every few weeks and then just watch the whole film. I wish they had a bloopers reel or if it was a tv show just to have it be longer. It’s superbly underrated
1:43 The way everybody in the room recoils when Beria walks up to the old doctor. Only Kaganovich and Khrushchev sated still.
In Soviet Union , u don’t run away from doctor,the doctor run away from you.
"Why i always encountered tyrants (signh) maybe i should "restore the republic" from here once i get out of this frozen hell"
-Cato the soviet doctor plotting for his revenge
It’s kinda sad how all these doctors get shot
They didn’t in real life and I don’t think they do in the movie either, at least not all of them as you can see some in the trucks leaving Stalin’s house
Cato should've never declared Caesar an Enemy of The State. Reap the whirlwind!
Accurately portrays how deranged all the apparatchiks were during the soviet union.
"You're not even a person; you're a testicle!"
1:54 "no" that always makes me laugh how he whispers it
2:45 What in the world are the doctors doing to Stalin’s corpse? Namely cutting his head?
They're removing the brain in order to confirm the cause of death as a cerebral hemorrhage
They're doing an autopsy to confirm how he died
They are dividing the spoils
They are filling his brain with American lies!
@@Belisarius536 JACKALS!!!
The fact that he tried to run away is hilarious
"You're made mostly of hair!" Is by far my favourite insult.
Wait at 3:56 who was getting shot and who was in the truck driving away? Both groups are wearing white coats so we’re the doctors executed or…?
In the script, it's Stalin's body doubles but it's hard to tell with the movie. It looks like some randomly selected dacha staff chaps to me.
The doctors were put on the trucks and so were most of the dacha staff.
In real life the killing of doctors ended after Stalin's death. The "Doctor's Plot" was declared a fabrication by the new Soviet leadership, and the doctors still in prison were released.
@@UnlistedThoughtsthey killed his body doubles?! Awful.
@@modelcitizen72That is so they don't appear at a later date claiming to be the real Stalin.
@@Tugela60 Brutal.
"He says an 'emorr'age is an 'emorr'age he doesn't see what Stalin is moanin' about"
Vasily is just pure gold😂
I thought I had Cato on the run for good. Apparently he's become an apothecary in some strange land!
Understanding the “Doctor’s plot” helped me understand the context of this.
Vasily insulting the doctors is the funniest part of this movie hands down
The old man doctor soon realize that he and the others are going to get killed when he heard the sound of the trucks
"You're not even a person you're a testicle" im in fucking stiches 🤣
I must have watched this film 15 times and I’ve only just realised the first doctor scene is filmed in Battersea Park
"are they going to sing for us?" floored me.
Lol I love the subtle giving away of the clipboard like hot potato
@3:38, did he shoot the corps in the chest?!! lol
These are good doctors my dear, they are the best.
They look like mental patients.
"He sai a edg is a edg, he ol chp it down cus he coult see th view whs th reep moum bout."
Cato hasn’t aged a day
Putin's demise being played out akin to that of then Stalin's; it comes suddenly.
Good bot.
@@cstgraphpads2091 That would be you
Hopefully soon
And Beglenisky is gonna end up like Downfall
that young doctor who no one ever trust him him about his age LOL
The Darling of Venus himself, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin!
His illegal war is over!
When Beriya just marched towards.that doctor all pissed off i actually got scared for him.
It's hilarious. I'm convinced that at the time, the terror was thick, the reality wasn't even far as comic as Hollywood described it !
Yeah, if you ever read about the purges it's almost ludicrous. Stalin had set regional quotas for executions (which if a regional leader didn't meet or exceed, would be himself executed). But there just weren't enough dissenters to fill these quotas so people would get arrested or executed for almost anything. You had to fill your quota one way or another.
Its the human condition. We laugh, or we cry, or we go silent of dread.
"Please, I can give you names" Had me loling
Did the retiree really expect to outrun a group a healthy soldiers? The plan seemed doomed from the start.
It was to add goofiness to the seen
Shit happens, the person in charge was wearing heels, and could dislike being doubled.
"I've never met them before in my life" when I have complex numbers explained to me for the ith time
Lmao when he begins discharging his pistol leave my fathers brain alone!
"I can give you names"
"Stop resisting"
I like to think they lived…
4:06 maybe ?
yes it is confirmed the ones at 4:06 (in the truck) are the doctors and the dead one are stalin double
Once I asked my grandmother:
- Did anyone crying when Stalin died?
- Only crazy ones.
Your grandmother made a big mistake when she said that. I was able to talk to several people who lived during Stalin's rule. They compared it with the period when the revolution took place in 1917 and later. They remembered Stalin with gratitude, because during his reign the order in Russia was iron and they appreciated it. 🤷♂️
@@АлексейКузьмин-й8ъ Thats again quite subjective as many ppl who hated him at the time of his death grew to love him while those who mourned his death eventually came to despise him. The Soviet ppl's opinion about Stalin varies from person to person. It depends on the era in which that particular person was born, their occupation, social class, family history and general life under Stalin.
@@ruturajshiralkar5566 Yes, it definitely is. I understand this because I was born in the Soviet Union, my parents were born shortly before Stalin's death, and my grandparents lived with him at the same time. It was a very difficult and uncertain time. From the stories of people who lived at that time, I know one thing for sure: not everything in our life depends on one person. Stalin was a very controversial person and I think historians will argue for a long time about his role not only in the history of our country, but also in world history ...🤷♂️