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.

• Sergei LoznitsaScreenplay
• Sergei LoznitsaDirector

• Joseph StalinSelf (archive footage)
• Nikita KhrushchevSelf (archive footage)
• Lavrentiy BeriaSelf (archive footage)
• Vyacheslav MolotovSelf (archive footage)
• Georgi MalenkovSelf (archive footage)
• Klement GottwaldSelf (archive footage)
• Bolesław BierutSelf (archive footage)
• Urho KekkonenSelf (archive footage)
• Zhou EnlaiSelf (archive footage)
• Valko ChervenkovSelf (archive footage)
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-DejSelf (archive footage)
• Mátyás RákosiSelf (archive footage)