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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."
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.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Figurovsky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Фигуровский; 7 December 1923 – 14 June 2003) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, writer and professor at VGIK. Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1964). [2]
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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 ...
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From 1961 to 1963, he was director of the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. In 1964, he became director of Mosfilm. In 1971, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1963 to 2015, he directed and wrote all of his films alongside his second cousin, Valery Uskov . [3] [4] They went their separate ways in 2016.
1950 postage stamp, marking 30 years of Soviet film. It quotes Stalin, who calls cinema "the greatest medium of mass agitation." On August 27, 1919, Vladimir Lenin nationalized the film industry and created post-imperial Soviet films "when all control over film production and exhibition was ceded to the People’s Commissariat of Education."