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.

Documentary History

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))

Otto Grotewohl

(Self (archive footage))

Walter Ulbricht

(Self (archive footage))

Harry Pollitt

(Self (archive footage))

Dolores Ibárruri

(Self (archive footage))

Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

(Self (archive footage))

Palmiro Togliatti

(Self (archive footage))

Jacques Duclos

(Self (archive footage))