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.
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Lavrentiy Beria
Vyacheslav Molotov
Georgi Malenkov
Klement Gottwald
Bolesław Bierut
Urho Kekkonen
Zhou Enlai
Valko Chervenkov
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Mátyás Rákosi
Otto Grotewohl
Walter Ulbricht
Harry Pollitt
Dolores Ibárruri
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Palmiro Togliatti
Jacques Duclos