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Amidst national grief, a leader's death triggers an unprecedented funeral procession in Moscow.
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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.
"Almost 70 years ago, when Josef Stalin died, all of Russia (the Soviet Union at the time) stopped and for a week mourned his death. Thousands of people paid their respects and his funeral was an event of enormous proportions, causing national grief. It is at least curious that the images of such a magnitude event, which was captured by hundreds of cameras from the filmmakers present at the event, have been hidden from general knowledge for so long. Even today, little is known about the Soviet Union without a biased view, and this documentary offers us a little more about this nation. Less a documentary and more a document of a historic moment, 'State Funeral' is created only with archive footage. Immersive, with a sorrowful and introspective atmosphere, we follow the interminable procession, the faces of mourning and the silence that becomes thunderous, 'State Funeral' has an invaluable historical value."