Synopsis

Geelong French Film Festival.

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 Execution is a compelling examination of the police state and a piercing insight into the mind of the last days of a dictator.