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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union (2008)
Short | 15 min | Documentary, Short, History

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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union (2008)

Short | 15 min | Documentary, Short, History

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 ...See moreMoscow, 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. Written by Sam Ball See less

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Name	Known for
Edward Asner Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Up (2009)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Solomon Mikhoels Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Circus (1936)
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
Venyamin Zuskin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	A Jew at War (1930)