Operation "Wedding" (2017)

Name: Operation "Wedding"
Director: Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
Released: 2017-10-19
Rating: 8
Cast: Philipp Bobkov, Oleg Kalugin, Edward Kuznetsov, Israel Zalmanson, Sylva Zalmanson

DocumentaryHistory

63 min

Plot Summary

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.