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Refusenik

2007, Movie, NR, 120 mins

Refusenik: Review

Laura Bialis' documentary chronicles the decades-long, international grassroots movement to pressure the Soviet government into allowing the emigration of "refuseniks:" Russian Jews who were systematically persecuted after applying for exit visas, applications that were inevitably refused. Frequent targets of anti-semitic Czars, Russia's Jews at first hoped that the communist revolution would better their lives, but its promises of non-partisan equality quickly evaporated.... read more leave a comment