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The Sorrow of a Nation and Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral
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The Sorrow of a Nation and Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral

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Rosa Martinez
/ 21 June 2021

The Soviet people feel so close in Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral, it’s as if you ask via whisper if they ever lost a family member to a show trial or gulag.

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