REFUSENIK is the first film to chronicle the thirty-year fight to free Soviet Jews. What started as a grassroots movement bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights crusade that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike. Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, the film is a tapestry of first-person accounts of heroism, sacrifice, and ultimately, liberation.

• 1 hr 57 min
• Directed by

  Laura Bialis
• Written by Laura Bialis

• Starring

  Elie Wiesel

  ,

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  ,

  Alan Dershowitz

  ,

  George Shultz

  ,

  Zev Yaroslavsky