Unarguable genius Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin premieres here in Toronto, a brilliant satirical send - up of the final day of Stalin's life and the immediate aftermath of his death, with his cronies portrayed superbly as a bungling pack of sarcastic and self - serving plotters and imbeciles by Simon Russell Beale, Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, Paul Whitehouse and others.