The movie has landed today on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download; after first making waves in cinemas late last year.
The impressive cast boasts Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin and Andrea Riseborough, with direction from Armando Iannucci.
The political satire is based on the French graphic novel La mort de Staline, and follows the Soviet power struggles following Stalin’s passing in 1953.
It raked up a hefty 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is set to leave US audiences similarly impressed next month.
Iannucci spoke last year about how surprisingly easy he found it to write a comedy that also managed to be relatively accurate.
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“When we were researching it, we found out things like Vasily, Stalin’s son, really did lose the ice-hockey team in a plane crash,” he told The Guardian.
“And because the comedy is the comedy of hysteria, you want to be true to what happened and how people responded.
“So anything that was so-bizarre-and-yet-true was a candidate for going in.
“I thought about having ‘This is a true story…’, but then I thought, no, just watch it for what it is, and it would be great if you subsequently found out that the bulk of it was true.”
The Death of Stalin is out now on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download.