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The Big Blue (released in some countries under the French title Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 drama film directed by Luc Besson.Inspired by the Cinéma du look movement, the film is a heavily fictionalized and dramatized story of the friendship and sporting rivalry between two leading contemporary champion free divers in the 20th century: Jacques Mayol (played by Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo Maiorca ...
Refusenik is a 2007 documentary film by Laura Bialis that chronicles the struggle of Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. A former refusenik , Natan Sharansky , appears in the film.
Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal'; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Israel, by the authorities of the Soviet Union and other countries of the Soviet ...
The original goal of state-mandated film in the Soviet Union was to develop a means of propaganda purposed to usurp other forms of entertainment. 1920s cinema was designed to make a financial and ideological impact, and by the mid-1930s, foreign films were no longer imported into Russia from outside countries.
Babek (film) Babylon XX; The Bad Good Man; Bag of the Collector; Balamut; The Ballad of Bering and His Friends; Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair; The Beginning (1970 film) Belorussian Station; Big School-Break; The Big Space Travel; Birds over the City; Birthday (1977 film) The Blue Bird (1970 film) The Blue Bird (1976 film) The Bodyguard ...
The Soviet Jewry movement was an international human rights campaign that advocated for the right of Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate. The movement's participants were most active in the United States and in the Soviet Union. Those who were denied permission to emigrate were often referred to by the term Refusenik.
The Ambassador of the Soviet Union; Anahit (1947 film) And Quiet Flows the Don (1930 film) And Quiet Flows the Don (1958 film) Andrei Svislotskiy; Andriesh; Anna Karenina (1953 film) Annushka (film) Annychka; Anton Ivanovich Is Angry; Antosha Rybkin; April (1961 film) An Ardent Heart (film) Arsenal (1929 film) The Artamonov Business (film) The ...
The episode focused mainly on his experiences as a Soviet dissident, and featured many of his family and acquaintances. [40] In 2005, Sharansky participated in They Chose Freedom, a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement, and in 2008 he was featured in Laura Bialis' documentary Refusenik.