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  • 2021
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  • 2 h 15 m
State Funeral

Summary Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leader’s loss and witness his burial. Though the procession was captured in detail by hundreds of cameramen, their footage has remained largely unseen until now.

Directed By: Sergey Loznitsa

Written By: Sergey Loznitsa

  • 2021
  • MUBI
  • 2 h 15 m
  • 2021
  • MUBI
  • 2 h 15 m

State Funeral

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Summary Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leader’s loss and witness his burial. Though the procession was captured in detail by hundreds of cameramen, their footage has remained largely unseen until now.

Directed By: Sergey Loznitsa

Written By: Sergey Loznitsa

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100
Jun 2, 2021
Both as film and as history, State Funeral stands as a canonical work.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
88
May 7, 2021
A film like State Funeral is a warning. History has lessons for us about what does, and does not, work, in politics, in leadership, in culture itself. We would do well to listen. We would do well to watch.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
80
May 27, 2021
Loznitsa’s essay raises questions about the nature and ideological mechanisms of totalitarian myth-making, and the nature of public grief as propagandist display.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
80
May 21, 2021
A fascinating and invaluable document for all of its considerable run time, State Funeral is an occasion worthy of the title.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
80
May 20, 2021
The faces are the most intriguing thing. Loznitsa gives us a montage of inscrutability and repressed anxiety.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
70
May 27, 2021
This cannily edited selection of rare archive footage reveals the peak of the people’s mind-born terror, and it is the beginning of the end.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
67
May 27, 2021
With a running time of 135 minutes, it eventually becomes exhausting—but that is partly the point of a film about a population going through the motions, of a mass event with a hole where the middle should be.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Atoms & Void, Studio Uljana Kim, Nutprdukce, Current Time TV
Release Date May 7, 2021
Duration 2 h 15 m
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Website https://loznitsa.com/
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Awards

National Lithuania Film Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
DocAviv Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Wiesbaden goEast
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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