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State Funeral (2019)135 minDocumentary, HistoryRating 58/100

What makes this film and Stalin’s funeral so fascinating is that we will never know how much of it was real and how much was staged. With the rise of ‘strong’ leaders backed by heavy propaganda all over the world, this docu is a quiet and unbiased look at our past, and a mirror to our future. – VM

Cast: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrentiy Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgi Malenkov, Klement Gottwald, Bolesław Bierut

Director: Sergei Loznitsa