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The Village Voice calls it an "absorbing portrait of the refusenik movement." [1] The New York Sun says that it is "a thorough and engaging nonfiction account of the plight of Soviet Jews systematically oppressed under communism as they had been under the tsars, and denied the right to emigrate to Israel once the Jewish state was formed in 1948."
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 movie Mosca Addio (Farewell Moscow) by Mauro Bolognini, starring Liv Ullmann, was a dramatized version of her ordeal. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1991, she established "Mother to Mother", a nonprofit organization funded by donations from abroad, seeking to take the children of Russian immigrants off the streets and into after-school activities.
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 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.
Begun is a subject of a documentary film "Refusenik", directed by Laura Bialis. [19] Begun is a subject of the film "Through Struggle You Will Gain Your Rights”. [20] [21] Begun is the subject of a long Russian-language poem, "Runner Begoon" (1987), by the author and former refusenik David Shrayer-Petrov.
In 1990 he directed a much-publicized documentary highly critical of the Soviet society entitled We Can't Live Like This (also translates as You Can't Live Like That or This Is No Way to Live). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Although his feature films were previously ignored by the critical establishment, this film won him the Nika Award for Best Director. [ 5 ]
B. Agasi Babayan; Arif Babayev; Temur Babluani; Boris Babochkin; Victoria Barbă; Garri Bardin; Boris Barnet; Margarita Barskaya; Vladimir Barsky; Aleksandr Bashirov