State Funeral

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Países Bajos / Lituania, 2019, 135 min (Alternativa 129 min)

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El controvertido Sergei Loznitsa compone una apabullante crónica del funeral de Joseph Stalin en 1953 con impactantes imágenes de archivo inéditas, muchas a color. Su habitual estrategia de frontal exposición de los hechos, con la colectividad siempre en el punto de mira, sirve aquí para retratar la magnitud del culto a la personalidad inducido por el terror del más mortífero caudillo del socialismo. (Filmin)

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inglés The concept of this two-and-a-quarter-hour compiled documentary is simple – using official government footage and without offscreen commentary or music, it reconstructs events in the Soviet Union in the four days following Stalin’s death. However, Loznica uses properly restored archival materials, which originally served as communist propaganda, to emphasise the absurdity of the cult of personality while also uncovering its hollowness. The layered sound design and the repetition of shots that are similar in content show the extent to which veneration of the leader was based on the mechanical reproduction of the meaningless symbols and emblems of Stalinist iconography. 90% ()

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