State Funeral
synopsis
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 in Lenin's Tomb. Though the parade of pomp and circumstance was captured in detail by 200 camera operators, their footage has remained largely unseen in the intervening decades. Working from 40 hours of revelatory archival material - stunningly restored in both crisp black-and-white and vivid colour - master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (Donbass, A Gentle Creature, Maidan, The Trial) has crafted one of his most astonishing nonfiction achievements. Monumental in both its scope and scale, State Funeral provides an eerily immediate recreation of this historical spectacle.
details
Documentary
2 hr. 15 min.
Opened May 7th, 2021
synopsis
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 in Lenin's Tomb. Though the parade of pomp and circumstance was captured in detail by 200 camera operators, their footage has remained largely unseen in the intervening decades. Working from 40 hours of revelatory archival material - stunningly restored in both crisp black-and-white and vivid colour - master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (Donbass, A Gentle Creature, Maidan, The Trial) has crafted one of his most astonishing nonfiction achievements. Monumental in both its scope and scale, State Funeral provides an eerily immediate recreation of this historical spectacle.
details
Documentary
2 hr. 15 min.
Opened May 7th, 2021
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