Desc: Stalins Tod - Das Ende einer Ära: Directed by Jürgen Ast, Martin Hübner. With Joseph Stalin, Sergei Khrushchev, Igor Prelin, Oleg Chlevniuk. March 5, 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin as more than 1.5 million mourners make their way through the streets of Moscow to pay their last respects.