Operation Wedding

2016
1h 3m

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Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov and Sylva Zalmanson in Operation Wedding (2016)

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots 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... Read allLeningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots 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 Ana... Read allLeningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots 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, "... Read all

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- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
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8.1/10

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- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
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- 13 wins & 1 nomination total

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The film was originally titled "Next Year In Jerusalem". But it was changed during editing to "Operation Wedding": OPERATION WEDDING was the code name for the plan, as the group members originally planned on saying they are flying for a local wedding. The plan changed, but the name stuck.