Operation "Wedding"
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- Runtime
- 63 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Philipp Bobkov
- Oleg Kalugin
- Edward Kuznetsov
- Israel Zalmanson
- Sylva Zalmanson
- Yona Zalmanson
Director
- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
Producers
- Sasha Klein
- Guntis Trekteris
- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
