This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Product

Discover Search Genres

Guides

Best movies Best TV shows Trending movies Trending TV shows Watchlist guide Episode tracker

Trust

About Contact Attribution

Legal

Privacy Terms

Help shape the beta

Found a bug, import issue, or rough edge? Send a note from the page where it happened.

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union (2008) - Track Movie Watchlist | BingedWatch

BingedWatchBeta

Trending Genres Discover Sign in

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

Name: Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
Director: Sam Ball
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2008-11-09
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Ed Asner, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Solomon Mikhoels, Venyamin Zuskin

20080h 15mDirected by Sam Ball

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.

Status