Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin Biopic in the works

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007) is being adapted for film!

The film will be produced by Archil Gelovani and Sergey Yahontov’s Georgia-based banner Independent Film Project (IFP), producers of recent Venice special jury prize winner “April,” alongside Sam Taylor at Film and Music Entertainment, with financing from Len Blavatnik‘s Access Entertainment, which backed Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed Oscar-winning film “The Zone of Interest.”

The film will chronicle the life of Joseph Stalin as a gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia, and is earmarked for production in 2025/26.

Read the exclusive press release here.