Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008•15m•Released
DocumentaryHistory
Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official proclamation mourns the death of "a great People's Artist of the Soviet Union." What people are really mourning is the death of the most popular Jewish theater in the Soviet Union, and the man who kept it alive against all odds for over 20 years. No doubt many suspected the truth: he had just been assassinated by Stalin's secret police.
Director
Sam Ball
Writer
Sam Ball
Studio
Citizen Film
Cast
Ed Asner
Narrator (Voice)
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Solomon Mikhoels
Venyamin Zuskin
Production
Company
Citizen Film
Producer
Sam Ball
Producer
William Susman
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