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Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch have spread and one night she is taken away, not to the infamous Lubyanka prison, but to the Kremlin to attend the ailing Comrade Stalin himself. Uncle Joe (André Dussollier), an old man racked with pain but still as watchful and deadly as a snake.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
25 audience votes
Key crew
- Marc DugainDirector
- Marc DugainWriter
Cast
- Marina HandsAnna
- Édouard BaerVassilli
- Denis PodalydèsLe concierge
- André DussollierJoseph Staline
- Gilles Gaston-DreyfusBeria
- Anne BenoîtAlexandra
- Régis RomeleDocteur Grégoriev
- Valentin PopescuBolchakov
- Sophie PincemailleGarde
- Thierry HancisseOuvrier
- Gilles SégalOncle Anton
- Tom NovembreLe directeur de l'hôpital