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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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- Producer
- Guntis Trekteris
- Editor
- Bracha Zisman-Cohen
- Producer
- Sasha Klein
- Director
- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
- Producer
- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
- Director of Photography
- Scott Sinkler
- Director of Photography
- Israel Freedman
- Director of Photography
- Emmanuelle Mayer
- Director of Photography
- Daniel Miller
- Director of Photography
- Mike Bogatyrev
- Director of Photography
- Andrejs Verhoustinskis
- Director of Photography
- Rami Katzav
- Director of Photography
- David Stragmeister
- Director of Photography
- Itzik Portal
- Director of Photography
- Egons Upitis
- Writer
- Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov