24 minutes of grief theater so intense you'll forget Stalin's already dead.
Direction
Keko somehow makes grief feel choreographed by the state.
Director
Endri Keko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was commissioned mere weeks after Stalin's death, making it one of the fastest propaganda turnarounds in Eastern Bloc history. Albania was desperate to prove its loyalty to Moscow.
Director Endri Keko would later be imprisoned by Albania's own paranoid regime—turns out performative loyalty doesn't save you from purges. The very system he glorified devoured him.
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