State Funeral

State Funeral

135 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 22, 2019

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.

State Funeral

135 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 22, 2019

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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Studio Uljana Kim, Atoms & Void, Current Time TV, Nutprdukce
Original title Государственные похороны
Directors Sergei Loznitsa
Writers Sergei Loznitsa

Cast

Joseph Stalin

as Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

as Self (archive footage)

Lavrentiy Beria

as Self (archive footage)

Vyacheslav Molotov

as Self (archive footage)

Georgi Malenkov

as Self (archive footage)

Klement Gottwald

as Self (archive footage)

Bolesław Bierut

as Self (archive footage)

Urho Kekkonen

as Self (archive footage)

Zhou Enlai

as Self (archive footage)

Valko Chervenkov

as Self (archive footage)

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej

as Self (archive footage)

Mátyás Rákosi

as Self (archive footage)

Otto Grotewohl

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Ulbricht

as Self (archive footage)

Harry Pollitt

as Self (archive footage)

Dolores Ibárruri

as Self (archive footage)

Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

as Self (archive footage)

Palmiro Togliatti

as Self (archive footage)

Jacques Duclos

as Self (archive footage)