STATE FUNERALVALSTYBINĖS LAIDOTUVĖS

Movie Description

Unique, mostly as yet unseen archive footage from March 1953 shows the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s cult of personality. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by the Pravda newspaper as “the great farewell”, and are granted unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin.

The film studies Stalin’s cult of personality as a form of terror-induced delusion. It looks into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.