Operation "Wedding"

Operation "Wedding"

63 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 19, 2017

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.

Operation "Wedding"

63 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 19, 2017

Operation "Wedding"
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.
Producers Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Ego Media, Sasha Klein Production
Original title Operācija "Kāzas"
Directors Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
Writers Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov

Cast

Philipp Bobkov

as Himself (KGB)

Oleg Kalugin

as Himself (KGB)

Edward Kuznetsov

as Himself

Israel Zalmanson

as Himself

Sylva Zalmanson

as Herself