State Funeral

Oct 22, 2019

2h 15m

★ 6.7

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Atoms & Void

Studio Uljana Kim

Nutprdukce

Current Time TV

State Funeral Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

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

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