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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008 0.0 (0 votes) 0h 15m
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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

Overview

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official proclamation mourns the death of "a great People's Artist of the Soviet Union." What people are really mourning is the death of the most popular Jewish theater in the Soviet Union, and the man who kept it alive against all odds for over 20 years. No doubt many suspected the truth: he had just been assassinated by Stalin's secret police.

Key Crew

Producer: William Susman, Sam Ball

Writer: Sam Ball

Director: Sam Ball

Top Cast

Ed Asner
Ed Asner

Narrator (Voice)

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Solomon Mikhoels

Venyamin Zuskin

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