Festival de Mar del Plata 2019: crítica de “State Funeral”, de Sergei Loznitsapor Diego Lerer, 2019-11-01, www.micropsiacine.com

En su nuevo documental, el realizador ucraniano toma los gigantescos y masivos eventos realizados tras la muerte de Josef Stalin para observar de manera sutilmente crítica la situación política de la Unión Soviética en ese momento.

Sergei Loznitsaʼs Donbass: A Chimera of Warby Nataliya Shpylova, 2019-10-17, www.blogs.iu.edu

With Donbass, we initiate a conversation about how the military conflict in Eastern Ukraine develops and what contributes to the escalation of political and diplomatic tension between Russia and Ukraine.

State Funeralby Jason Ooi, 2019-10-15, www.thefilmstage.com

The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953 sent political reverberations around the world, marking a significant power shift that would inevitably alter the geopolitical landscape altogether.

"Stalin is dead. Long live Stalin!"by Anton Dolin, 2019-10-07, www.meduza.io

The Russian-language title Gosudarstvennye pokhorony is deliberately neutral, as though it has been scrubbed clean of political meaning. Even the English translation seems richer: State Funeral can also be back-translated as Pokhorony gosudarstva (The Funeral of the State), which lends itself easily to a wealth of interpretations.

Dokumentären om Stalins begravning väcker frågor om känslor i diktaturerJohannes Hagman, 2019-10-07, www.flm.nu

När man ser Sergej Loznitsas senaste film, State funeral, aktualiseras frågan om genre. Filmen om Stalins begravning – som består helt av samtida dokumentation i såväl färg som svartvitt – följer nämligen knappast förväntningarna på ett nutida dokumentärt eftermäle av en av världshistoriens mest avskydda diktatorer. Faktum är att den inte följer de flestas förväntningar på vad en dokumentärfilm är överhuvudtaget.

The Event by Sergei Loznitsa at the ICAby Jagger Biggs, 2019-10-04, www.russianartandculture.com

Soon after, the USSR collapsed, ending the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. This carefully compiled documentary film transports viewers back to the confusion and optimism of August 1991. It questions what revolution means in the post-Soviet context more widely, and leaves us wondering whether its participants are victors or victims.

Film: State Funeral, dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2019by Katya Kazbek, 2019-10-04, www.supamodu.com

An immersive experience of Joseph Stalin’s 1953 funeral proceedings carefully constructed from archival footage that gives a rare glimpse into the psyche of the massively oppressed.

UK Premiere of Sergei Loznitsaʼs The Trial at the ICAby Jagger Biggs , 2019-10-02, www.russianartandculture.com

The 1930 show trial was a staged spectacle, revolving around a crime fabricated by the OGPU. It is a fine example of the harrowingly calculated propaganda the early Soviet government used to try and change the mentality of an entire population.

TIFF Review: "State Funeral"by Daniel Glassman, 2019-10-01, www.povmagazine.com

According to a survey done earlier this year by the Russian polling firm Levada, 70% of Russians are of the opinion that Josef Stalinʼs rule was good for the country. To those in the West who equate Stalin with the likes of Hitler and Mao as men whose colossal crimes mark them as bloodthirsty tyrants and whose names are almost bywords for evil itself, this nostalgia is surprising, to say the least.

A Hypnotic but Contextless Portrait of Stalin’s Death and Its Aftermathby Massha Gesssen, 2019-09-30, www.newyorker.com

In March of 1953, Moscow, and the rest of the Soviet Union, fell under a spell. On March 5th, a sombre male voice on the radio, heard on loudspeakers mounted in public spaces throughout the U.S.S.R., announced that the great leader Joseph Stalin had died.

POST-SOVIET MENTALITY IN THE WORKS OF S. ALEKSIEVICH AND S. LOZNITSAN. Klimenko, 2019-09-16, Yale University, New Haven, USA Scientific supervizor A. Savenko

The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, referred to as the “Great Experiment”, was a massive transgenerational cultural phenomenon that resulted in the creation of what may be called a new psychological species known as Homo Sovieticus. Even though the phenomenon of Homo Sovieticus has been well studied [1], the contemporary metamorphosis of the post-Soviet mentality is a fairly undocumented process.

La mummia del poteredi Giacomo Tagliani, 2019-09-07, www.fatamorganaweb.unical.it

Non siamo più abituati all’idea di un evento che non sia sempre anche mediatico. Non lo siamo più da quando ciascuno di noi ha con sé una protesi tecnologica con la quale insieme produce e consuma contenuti mediali in tempo reale. Ma ancora più addietro, è nella fase ruggente della televisione e della presa diretta che il couplage tra l’evento e i media che lo creano, lo definiscono e lo riproducono ha assunto una saldatura pressoché perfetta, rendendo quasi ridondante quel binomio non più pensabile separatamente.

В Венеции наконец похоронили СталинаСтас Тыркин, 2019-09-07, www.kp.ru

Фильм продолжительностью 135 минут - уникальная возможность примерить на себя события марта 1953 года, испытать этот опыт, пройти этот неслабый «иммерсивный экспириенс». Знаменитый документалист Лозница смонтировал кадры, снятые в преддверии и во время похорон вождя и учителя двумястами советскими операторами.

Венеция-2019: Хроника Дряхлости - От Похорон Сталина До Шедевра Полански И Слабого КонкурсаЕкатерина Барабаш, 2019-09-07, www.kino-teatr.ru

А в новом монтажном фильме Сергея Лозницы «Государственные похороны» показано, как в сделку со злом вступила вся страна. Более чем двухчасовая картина подробно рассказывает о том, что происходило в СССР с 5 марта 1953 года кончая моментом, как гроб с телом Сталина внесли в Мавзолей.

State Funeral: Venice Reviewby Jonathan Romney, 2019-09-06, www.screendaily.com

In one documentary mode, he films observational pieces such as Maidan, Austerlitz and Victory Day, while in another he creates complex assemblages of archival work mapping the surface appearances and underlying complexities of modern Russian history; notably in The Event and last year’s The Trial. His new film State Funeral is in the latter vein, an epic, implicitly ironic evocation of the elaborate ceremonies that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953.

Venezia76 – State Funeral, di Sergei Loznitsadi Leonardo Lardieri, 2019-09-06, www.sentieriselvaggi.it

5 marzo 1953, ore 21.50. Dopo alcuni giorni di agonia, muore per una crisi respiratoria, causata da un ictus, Josip Stalin. “Morto Stalin, viva Stalin”. L’Unione Sovietica si ferma per i suoi funerali di Stato. Con filmati d’archivio, in gran parte inediti, Loznitsa mostra l’intera cerimonia della sepoltura, seguita da tutto il Paese, orfano del suo comandante supremo, che l’organo di stampa Pravda descrisse come “Il Grande Addio”.

Кремль построил вокруг кладбище и околдовал людейДмитрий Волчек, 2019-09-06, www.currenttime.tv

Почему фильм о событиях почти семидесятилетней давности оказался очень актуален в современной России? И что происходит после смерти диктатора, который собрал в своих руках колоссальную власть? Обо всем этом кинорежиссер Лозница рассказал в интервью Дмитрию Волчеку.

Пепел и ДонбассАндрей Плахов, 2019-09-06, www.kommersant.ru

Лозница по-новому аранжирует кадры похорон, ставит их в современный контекст, высекает барочные цветовые эффекты из контрастов черно-белого с вкраплениями кумача и алых цветов (кровь прочитывается за кадром).