Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

200815m
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.

Crew

Sam Ball

Sam Ball

Producer

Sam Ball

Sam Ball

Writer

WS

William Susman

Producer

Sam Ball

Sam Ball

Director

Sophie E. Constantinou

Sophie E. Constantinou

Director of Photography

Cast

Ed Asner

Ed Asner

Narrator (Voice)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

VZ

Venyamin Zuskin

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