State funeral (2019)

Original title

Государственные похороны

Directed by

Sergei Loznitsa

Genre

documentary film, historical film

Country

Netherlands, Lithuania

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This documentary shows the massive state funeral for Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. It uses archival footage to capture the orchestrated public mourning and the controlled display of grief in Moscow.

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What happens

State Funeral (Russian: Государственные похороны, romanized: Gosudarstvennye pohorony) is a 2019 internationally co-produced documentary film by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. It examines the ceremony and aftermath of Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to his death in 1953. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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