State Funeral

Государственные похороны

2019·135'

Sergei Loznitsa

DocumentaryHistory

Russian

Letterboxd TMDB #618362

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

Cast

Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) Nikita Khrushchev Self (archive footage) Lavrentiy Beria Self (archive footage) Vyacheslav Molotov Self (archive footage) Georgi Malenkov Self (archive footage) Klement Gottwald Self (archive footage) Bolesław Bierut Self (archive footage) Urho Kekkonen Self (archive footage) Zhou Enlai Self (archive footage) Valko Chervenkov Self (archive footage) Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Self (archive footage) Mátyás Rákosi Self (archive footage)