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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 is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year international human rights campaign to free more than 1.5 million Soviet Jews who tried to escape the pervasive anti-Semitism of postwar Russia. Refuseniks is the term that Soviet Jews gave themselves when they were refused exit visas. [31]
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 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.
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.
This category includes Refuseniks, i.e. people who were initially denied permission to emigrate abroad by the authorities of the former Soviet Union and countries of Eastern Bloc. In practice, the majority of Refuseniks were people of Jewish background trying to emigrate to Israel.
This is the list of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union, in terms of box office admissions (ticket sales). It includes the highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union (USSR), the highest-grossing domestic Soviet films, [1] the domestic films with the greatest number of ticket sales by year, [2] and the highest-grossing foreign films in the Soviet Union. [3]
Good is a 2008 drama film based on the stage play of the same name by Cecil Philip Taylor. It stars Viggo Mortensen , Jason Isaacs , and Jodie Whittaker , and was directed by Vicente Amorim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2008.