Dir: Peter Duncan | Cast: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh | Drama Australia
A film depicting Stalin is the last thing you would expect to emerge from Down Under, but if you get over the shock of the simple fact of it’s existence, see it!
Judy Davis is as usual excellent as a life-long communist haunted by the guilt of having been inadvertently responsible for the death of her idol during a single night of passion in the Kremlin.
The tryst leads to the birth of a son whose the image of his father who rises in the Australian trade union movement, which results in him crossing the path of Rachel Griffiths as a mounted policewoman in a black leather uniform who he deliberately provokes into putting him in handcuffs. @RichardChatten