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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union

BALANCING ACTS: A JEWISH THEATER IN THE SOVIET UNION

Directed by Sam Ball
United States, 2008
Documentary, Short, History

Synopsis

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”.

Synopsis

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”.