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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

Nov 9, 2008
0h 15m
★ 0.0

Overview

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official proclamation mourns the death of "a great People's Artist of the Soviet Union." What people are really mourning is the death of the most popular Jewish theater in the Soviet Union, and the man who kept it alive against all odds for over 20 years. No doubt many suspected the truth: he had just been assassinated by Stalin's secret police.

Genres

Documentary
History

Production Companies

Citizen Film

Cast

Ed Asner

Narrator (Voice)

Ed Asner

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

Venyamin Zuskin

Venyamin Zuskin

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