Monty Python star in film comedy about death of Stalin

A film satire on the last days of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin starring Monty Python's Michael Palin is soon to start shooting, its producers told AFP on Friday. "The Death of Stalin" recounts the chaotic power struggles in the Kremlin to replace the dictator who died in 1953. US star Steve Buscemi will play Nikita Khrushchev who finally won out over Stalin loyalists in the days before the dictator's state funeral.