State Funeral

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.

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  Sergei Loznitsa

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  Joseph Stalin
  Self (archive footage)
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  Nikita Khrushchev
  Self (archive footage)
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  Lavrentiy Beria
  Self (archive footage)
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  Vyacheslav Molotov
  Self (archive footage)
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  Georgi Malenkov
  Self (archive footage)
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  Klement Gottwald
  Self (archive footage)
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  Bolesław Bierut
  Self (archive footage)
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  Urho Kekkonen
  Self (archive footage)
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  Zhou Enlai
  Self (archive footage)
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  Valko Chervenkov
  Self (archive footage)
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  Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
  Self (archive footage)
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  Mátyás Rákosi
  Self (archive footage)
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  Otto Grotewohl
  Self (archive footage)
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  Walter Ulbricht
  Self (archive footage)
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  Harry Pollitt
  Self (archive footage)
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  Dolores Ibárruri
  Self (archive footage)
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  Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
  Self (archive footage)