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Operation "Wedding"

DocumentaryHistory
8.0·2017·1h 3m

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, th...

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Philipp Bobkov

Himself (KGB)

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Oleg Kalugin

Himself (KGB)

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Edward Kuznetsov

Himself

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Israel Zalmanson

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Sylva Zalmanson

Herself

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Yona Zalmanson

DIRECTOR

Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov

OVERVIEW

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.