Red Monarch (1983)

Written by Yuri Korotkov, Charles Wood

Directed by Jack Gold

Running Time: 115 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1983

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: UK

Filmed in Colour

Made for TV

In a Russia where fear is an everday currency, two men rule: Stalin and Beria, who daily sign the warrants and orders that will mean death and exile to the gulags for thousands. Yet Jack Gold's black comedy walks a fine tightrope - Stalin is portrayed as a family man capable of love while Beria is a womaniser who used his power to cruelly seduce countless women with the promise of safety

Cast

	Carroll Baker		Brown
	David Suchet		Beria
	Nigel Stock		Molotov
	Colin Blakely		Stalin
	Ian Hogg		Shapochnikov
	Virginia Balfour		Housekeeper
	Susan Carpenter		Seraphima
	George A. Cooper		Kaganovitch
	George Costigan		Projectionist
	Freddie Earlle		Mikoyan
	Glynn Edwards		Vlasek
	Bernard Gallagher		Vovka
	Jane Galloway		Svetlana
	Brian Glover		Nikita Kruschev
	Gawn Grainger		Zamorsky
	Eileen Helsby		Nina
	Jean Heywood		Sopha
	Ceri Jackson		Olga
	Paddy Joyce		Akhmet
	David Keeley		Sergo
	Lee Montague		Lee
	Fred Lee Own		Mao Tse-tung
	Flora Page		Masha
	Wensley Pithey		Voroshilov
	Tim Preece		Lukov
	Oscar Quitak		Mekhlis
	Malcolm Terris		Chairman Physical Culture
	David Threlfall		Vasily
	Peter Woodthorpe		Malenkov