A character from this series, Alan Partridge, co-created by Iannucci, went on to feature in a number of Iannucci's television and radio programmes, including Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge.
Starting on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4, his early work with Chris Morris on the radio series On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of Oxford, leaving graduate work on a D.Phil about John Milton to pursue a career in comedy. Rate this script: (5.00 / 1 vote)Īrmando Giovanni Iannucci, ( born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, and radio producer.
Stalin signs the lists and hands them to Beria. Khrushchev is miming a man with a grenade in his mouth. STALIN'S DACHA - OFFICE/DINING ROOM - NIGHT 6 Office with the figure of Andreyev pacing in frustration.Ħ INT.
CONCERT HALL - AUDITORIUM/DIRECTOR'S OFFICE - NIGHT 5įrom the auditorium, we see the window of the director's Panic not knowing what to do with a live grenade.ĥ INT. Khrushchev is miming an amusing war incident people in a Man - KHRUSHCHEV, 59 - is entertaining two other bulky men: Stalin thinks for a moment, then shakes his head.īeyond Beria, through a doorway, a bulky, balding middle-aged Lists of names as the Mozart concerto plays on his radio.Ī short, stocky man with cold eyes behind a set of pince-nez We pan down to see the real STALIN - frail, old, We're on a large portrait of Stalin: handsome, strong, sleekĭark hair. STALIN'S DACHA - OFFICE/DINING ROOM - NIGHT 4 The nervous man heaves a sigh of relief.Ĥ INT. Trying to hide his panic, the nervous man looks away thenīack to the guard. Some of the audience are lost in the music. He smacks the apple out of Sergei’s hand and gets him to hand He gropes manically for a piece of paper. Sergei watches him, munching on an apple. He suddenly tenses, gesturing at the technician to turn down There's a clock and a portrait of Stalin on the wall.
“conducts” the music with a cheap fountain pen.Ī technician, SERGEI, keeps an eye on dials and buttons. The programme director,ĪNDREYEV (45) leans back in his chair. CONCERT HALL - DIRECTOR'S OFFICE - NIGHT 2Ī small room looking into the hall. CONCERT HALL - AUDITORIUM - NIGHT 1Ī chamber orchestra is performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No.Ģ3 (2nd movement), featuring soloist, MARIA YUDINA.Ģ INT.