Sergei Loznitsa – State Funeral #Venezia76

September 16, 2019

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Sergei Loznitsa, director of the film State Funeral.

The internationally esteemed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa sits down with us in Venice to talk about his latest work, State Funeral, a film all based on the dictator Josef Stalin’s passing and its subsequent monumental funeral and mourning.

State Funeral: Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper as “the Great Farewell”, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin’s reign. The film addresses the issue of Stalin’s personality cult as a form of terror-induced delusion. It gives an insight into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.

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Nicolò Comotti Sergei Loznitsa

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Mostra del Cinema di Venezia

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