Operation "Wedding"

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR.

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Overview

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.

Cast

Philipp Bobkov
Philipp Bobkov
Himself (KGB)
Oleg Kalugin
Oleg Kalugin
Himself (KGB)
Edward Kuznetsov
Edward Kuznetsov
Himself
Israel Zalmanson
Israel Zalmanson
Himself
Sylva Zalmanson
Sylva Zalmanson
Herself
Yona Zalmanson
Yona Zalmanson

Trailer

Trailer: OPERATION WEDDING (my parents & the plane hijacking) / Soviet Jewry Refuseniks