RUSSIA'S MODERN MUMMIES

This is the story of how one of Russia's greatest communist dictators, Lenin, was mummified and placed on public display in Red Square Moscow. The programme examines the brave scientists that pioneered the first of this kind of body preservation. Failure would mean death under the regime of Stalin who ordered his adversary's body placed in permanent state.
This film contains unique footage of the world's only modern mummification lab, from archive to modern day. The scientists, who now continually tend the mummified Lenin, do so with regimental precision. We go behind the scenes to see some of the most extraordinary images to come from communist Russia.
2000 years after the last Egyptian pharaohs were mummified an ancient ritual was revived in early twentieth century Russia. The world's first modern mummy was created in 1924 and Red Square, Moscow, is where it still lies to this day. This is the body of Lenin. A frail body that has been experimented on for over 70 years. Other dictators have been mummified by the same lab, including Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.
This film reveals, in detail, the shocking and pioneering work of the Russian mummification scientists and their extraordinary experiments on dead human bodies.
By: LINDA CAROLYNE RODRIGUEZ MARIN