Marshal Georgy Zhukov is irate over the supplanting of the military by the NKVD and he and Khrushchev are further incensed upon discovering that Beria has halted all transportation into Moscow. While the Committee names Malenkov chairman, he is essentially a puppet of Beria, who further exerts control by hijacking Khrushchev's proposed reforms, releasing political prisoners, loosening clergical restrictions, and relegating him to planning Stalin's funeral. However, Khrushchev fails to secure Molotov's allegiance as a result of Molotov's dislike of factionalism, which is compounded by Beria releasing his wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina, from prison. Khrushchev and Beria vie for the support of Stalin's children, Svetlana and her alcoholic brother, Vasily.

The Committee returns to Moscow as the NKVD loots the dacha and Beria has the order to execute Molotov stricken. Stalin has a bout of terminal lucidity, but he eventually dies, fulfilling Yudina's wish. After the rest of the Committee, including Lazar Kaganovich, Anastas Mikoyan, and Nikolai Bulganin, arrive, they collectively decide to send for a team of doctors despite all of the best in the Moscow area having been purged. The Central Committee is notified and they rush to the dacha Beria, who has had the NKVD take up the Red Army-held security postings across Moscow, is the first to arrive and finds Yudina's note. Out of fear of punishment, Stalin's guards do not enter the office despite having heard him fall in the morning, his housekeeper is the first to discover him unconscious. When the record arrives, Stalin finds the note as he reads it, he laughs hysterically, but suffers a cerebral haemorrhage in the process. As the Central Committee members leave, NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria reveals to Nikita Khrushchev and Deputy Chairman Georgy Malenkov that Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is to be purged.

Having not been making a recording in the first place, the sound engineers hurriedly have the orchestra perform again, but pianist Maria Yudina hides a note for Stalin in the record sleeve admonishing him and expressing her hope for his death. 23 when Joseph Stalin calls from Kuntsevo Dacha while playing host to the Central Committee, demanding a recording. Radio Moscow is airing a live recital of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. It received various awards, including two British Academy Film Award nominations for Outstanding British Film as well as 13 British Independent Film Award nominations winning four awards including for Simon Russell Beale for Best Supporting Actor.

The film was banned in Russia and Kyrgyzstan for allegedly mocking the countries' past and making fun of their leaders. It was released in the United Kingdom by Entertainment One Films on 20 October 2017, in France by Gaumont on 4 April 2018 and in Belgium by September Film Distribution on 18 April 2018. The Death of Stalin was screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and received critical acclaim. The British-French-Belgian co-production stars an ensemble cast that includes Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Whitehouse, Olga Kurylenko, and Jeffrey Tambor. Based on the French graphic novel La Mort de Staline (2010–2012), the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the Council of Ministers following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953.

The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire black comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider and Ian Martin with Peter Fellows.

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