Operation "Wedding"

Release Date: 2017-10-19

Runtime: 63

Languages: English | עִבְרִית | Pусский

Rating: 8

Votes: 1

Genres: Documentary | History

Director: Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov

Description: Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two we...Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.Read More

Production Companies:

Ego Media

Sasha Klein Production