The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl (11 March 1894 – 21 September 1964) was a German politician who served as the first prime minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) from 1949 to 1964. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otto Grotewohl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.