State Funeral

• 6.889 Documentary
• 2019-10-22
• 135 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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))

Director:

Sergei Loznitsa

Writer:

Sergei Loznitsa