Refusenik
Verzio FF Submission “Refusenik” is a retrospective documentary chronicling the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian English |
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Foundation for Documentary Projects
2007
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:fec4a334-2d62-4596-a52d-8f1f521eac18 |
| Summary: | Verzio FF Submission
“Refusenik” is a retrospective documentary chronicling the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike. Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain - many of whom survived punishment in Soviet Gulag labor camps - the film is a tapestry of first-person accounts of heroism, sacrifice, and ultimately, liberation. |
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| Published: | 2007 |