Despite being shot in 2016, before Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory, “The Death of Stalin” was immediately hailed as a political satire with its finger on the pulse when it premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. How could it not? Coming from Armando Iannucci, one of the great comedians of his generation, known for chronicling government in all its obscene clumsiness in the UK with “The Thick of It” and “In the Loop” and across the pond in the US with the hit TV series “Veep,” “The Death of Stalin” marked the first time the writer/director had actually made history.

Based on the French graphic novel, “La Mort de Staline,” the film is a comedic interpretation of the social and political power struggle that followed the death of Russian leader Joseph Stalin in 1953. Featuring an all-star cast including Steve Buscemi,…