“Marina Hands really is outstanding.”

Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian ★★★★

“ Film Of The Week”

Anthony Quinn – The Independent

“Boasts three excellent performances and a clever story that works

between fiction and history”

Jason Solomons – The Mail on Sunday ★★★★

“Gut-wrenching reality about a historical period that's insufficiently understood”

Philip French – The Observer

AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM 4 JULY

Based on his own hugely successful novel of the same name, Marc Dugain’s debut feature,

An Ordinary Execution, is an encounter between the aging Joseph Stalin (Andre Dussolier) and a young doctor, Anna.  Anna (Marina Hands), who has extraordinary healing powers, is brought in to treat the escalating physical woes of the dictator’s old age after his own doctor has been “purged.”  Seen entirely through Anna’s eyes, he lays bare his philosophy of terror- rambling, plotting, intimidating.

Ingeniously shot to reflect the grimness of oppression, and filled with tension and mystery,

An Ordinary Executionis a compelling examination of the police state and a piercing insight into the mind of the last days of a dictator.