The English film "The Death Of Stalin" directed by Scottish director Armando Iannucci has recently started filming. The film is adapted from the comic of the same name by Fabien-Nury and tells the story of the fierce power struggle among the top leaders of the Soviet Communist Party after Stalin's death. American actor Adrian McLoughlin plays Stalin, Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor will play Soviet leader Malenkov, Steve Buscemi will play Khrushchev, former "Bond girl" Olga Kurylenko will play Soviet pianist Maria Yudina (Stalin died to the accompaniment of her piano records), Simon Russell Beale will play the second-in-command of the Soviet Union, Beria, and Rupert Friend will play Stalin's second son Vasily. In addition, Jason Isaacs, Toby Kebbell and others have joined the film. Stalin was the longest-serving supreme leader in Soviet history (1924-1953). Under his iron-fisted rule, the Soviet Union became a superpower that rivaled the United States. There have always been various conspiracy theories about his death. The official conclusion is that he died of natural causes due to a stroke, but some people firmly believe that he was poisoned to death, and the murderer was Beria, the head of the KGB (Soviet intelligence agency). After Stalin's death, the Soviet Union fell into a state of leaderlessness for a time, and the political struggle at the top was extremely fierce. In the end, Khrushchev and others overthrew Beria, the de facto number two figure in the Soviet Union at the time. A few months after Stalin's death, Beria was sentenced to death as a Western spy.