Stalin's Funeral

Stalin's Funeral
Directed by	Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Written by	Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Starring	Vanessa Redgrave Aleksey Batalov Georgi Yumatov Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Narrated by	Vsevolod Larionov
Music by	Charlie Chaplin G. Maya Igor Nazaruk
Cinematography	Anatoli Ivanov
Edited by	Eleonora Praksina
Release dates	1990
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Stalin's Funeral (Russian: Похороны Сталина, translit. Pokhorony Stalina)^[1] is a 1990 Soviet drama film written and directed by the famous poet, Yevgeni Yevtushenko. The film stars the British actress, Vanessa Redgrave.

Cast

• Vanessa Redgrave as English journalist
• Aleksey Batalov
• Georgi Yumatov as Stalin's guard
• Yevgeni Yevtushenko as Sculptor
• Denis Konstantinov as Zhenya
• Yevgeni Platokhin as Lisiy
• Savva Kulish as Frenchman
• Albert Toddle
• Maya Bulgakovа
• Mikhail Zhigalov as working
• Valentin Nikulin as neighbor
• Galina Stakhanova as employee of the cemetery
• Vladimir Ilyin as man in a pub
• Sergey Bezrukov (episode)

Production

Yevtushenko's was more critical of Joseph Stalin's crimes by the time of production and he also sought to emphasise his generation's rejection of Stalinism; "If one is to speak about Stalinism, then we are still digging down to the roots of the poisonous tree of totalitarianism, of which Stalin was the gardener. But this film is not about the roots and not about the gardener but rather about the green shoots sprouting in the evil shade of that tree and yet straining toward the light - about our generation."^[2]

References

1. M. Lyman, Stanford (2001). Roads to dystopia: sociological essays on the postmodern condition. University of Arkansas Press.
2. L. Ryan, Karen (2009). Stalin in Russian satire, 1917-1991. University of Wisconsin Press.

External links

• Pokhorony Stalina at the Internet Movie Database