Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union (2008)
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.
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Casting arrow_drop_down
Ed Asner
as Narrator (Voice)
as Narrator (Voice)
Adolf Hitler
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Joseph Stalin
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as
Solomon Mikhoels
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Venyamin Zuskin
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as
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Crew arrow_drop_down
Kate Stilley Steiner
Editor
Editor
Sam Ball
Writer
Writer
Sam Ball
Director
Director
Sam Ball
Producer
Producer
William Susman
Producer
Producer
Sophie E. Constantinou
Cinematography
Cinematography
Jeremiah Moore
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Stephen Hart
Music Score Producer
Music Score Producer
Joan Jeanrenaud
Musician
Musician
Mira Stroika
Musician
Musician
William Susman
Musician
Musician
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