MOSCOW — Five years ago, Stalin’s Funeral would have been a sensation. Written and directed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Soviet Union’s best-known modern-day poet, the new film depicts life under Josef ...

Using hours of found footage, ‘State Funeral’ revisits the funeral of Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin, offering “a damning critique of a… disastrous cult of personality.” Entertainment Critic Armando ...

The 20th century is likely unique in laying claim to three sociopathic dictators whose complete disregard for humanity in either the individual or the collective has justifiably earned them the label ...

Mar. 11—A renowned Ukrainian filmmaker will visit the University of Oklahoma for a public event to screen his documentary about Joseph Stalin. Sergei Loznitsa, an internationally acclaimed film ...

A crazed cult of personality or really good acting? Restored footage shows how the Soviet Union reacted to Uncle Joe’s demise in the doc State Funeral. Who would have guessed that within a five-year ...

History may be, as Napoleon wrote, the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon, but national histories in the 20th Century left behind something they couldn’t in earlier eras: a ...

On March 5, 1953, the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was announced to the people by Yury Levitan, a Soviet radio announcer who was active during and after the Second World War. Reading from the ...

Joseph Stalin was one of the most important leaders of the 20th century. He conquered the Germans to help end World War II. Then he built his country into the world’s only other modern superpower. But ...

The Death of Stalin opens in Radio Moscow in 1953, where an orchestra is wrapping up the third movement of a Mozart piano concerto. The phone rings. It’s Joseph Stalin, personally requesting a copy of ...

Recently, I went to my first movie in a theater in 14 months. As the opportunity to patronize cinemas in person again presented itself to this vaccinated cinephile — we’re the ones who see the light ...