The 10th RusDocFilmfest-3W presents "Operation Wedding," an award-winning documentary about a daring plot by Jewish dissidents to hijack a plane and escape the U.S.S.R. Buy tickets here.

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the GULAG and two were then sentenced to death. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in the Soviet Union, even in Russia today.

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Director: Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov

62 min, 2016, Israel, Latvia, English Subtitles