Documentaries
Emigration
Ladispoli 1989
Stateless
Operation Wedding
Ladispoli 1989
Stateless
"Stateless"
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Events in Stateless take place during the politically charged climate of the late 1980’s. At that time the USSR was home to the largest population of Jews in Europe. Under pressure from various political sources, including that of U.S. Jewry, the Soviet government opened the borders and allowed its Jewish population to leave the country. This time the migrants would have the freedom to choose their destination, but those who hoped to make the United States their home now had to prove “a reasonable fear of persecution.” Learn more
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Operation Wedding
"Operation Wedding"
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"Operation Wedding" is not a film about planning a wedding, it is about a daring escape attempt from the USSR by a group of Soviet Jews who were trapped behind the "Iron Curtain".
It started as a fantasy, Operation Wedding: Under the disguise of a trip to a local family wedding, a group of 16 young dissidents would buy every ticket on a small 12-seater plane, so there would be no passengers but them, no innocents in harm’s way. |
The group’s pilot would take over the controls and fly the 16 runaways into the sky, over the Soviet border, on to Sweden, bound for Israel. 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. ... Learn more
