Top billed cast

1. 

   Joseph Stalin

   Self (archive footage)

2. 

   Nikita Khrushchev

   Self (archive footage)

3. 

   Lavrentiy Beria

   Self (archive footage)

4. 

   Vyacheslav Molotov

   Self (archive footage)

5. 

   Georgi Malenkov

   Self (archive footage)

6. 

   Klement Gottwald

   Self (archive footage)

7. 

   Bolesław Bierut

   Self (archive footage)

8. 

   Urho Kekkonen

   Self (archive footage)

9. 

   Zhou Enlai

   Self (archive footage)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-07-29

I wasn't sure whether I wanted a narrator or not here, as we follow the activities of the days immediately following the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953. A commentary might have helped me appreciate just who was whom as a procession of dignitaries from home and abroad, but the lack of that and the reliance on the public address announcements did work really effectively at illustrating the esteem in which this man was held - or, certainly, the esteem in which the Communist party wanted him to be held. What we see for the next two hours is an astonishing testament of the archivists arts as ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Russian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• tradition
• political history