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‘It’s impossible to take your eyes off this infinitely dear face’: the startling film about Stalin’s funeral Crafted from footage locked for years in an archive, Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral focuses on the motivations of the mourners who lived under the brutal regime ‘You are overwhelmed with sorrow’ . a clip from State Funeral. Photograph: YouTube ‘You are overwhelmed with sorrow’ . a clip from State Funeral. Photograph: YouTube Fri 14 May 2021 03.00 EDT “At 21.50, due to cardiovascular and respiratory failure, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin died,” intones an announcer. A woman takes off her hat, on the verge of tears. A handsome youth in a military uniform stares stoically at his feet. One middle-aged man glances self-consciously at the camera, as if to check it is still watching him, before looking down again. Again and again, our focus is drawn to faces in the crowds all across the Soviet Union. Not all are reverent. So

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