Russian Jews. Film three. After the 1948.

Special screenings of Leonid Parfyonov’s documentary and Q&A with the author. 

After the release of the films “Russian Jews. Film one. Before the revolution” and “Russian Jews. Film two. 1918-1948”, fund “Genesis” and “Namedni” studio in collaboration with The Documentary Film Centre (DFC) present the third and the final film of the trilogy about the role of Russian Jews in the history of the country and the world – “Russian Jews. Film three. After the 1948”. Author and presenter – Leonid Parfyonov, director – Sergey Nurmamed.

The third film covers the period from the 1948th till the collapse of the Soviet Union. Murder of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist committee by the state security service in 1948 marks the new era in the relationships between the Soviet authorities and Jews. The Jewish Anti-Fascist committee is eliminated, the execution of its activists and the campaign against so-called “rootless cosmopolitans” form a new state antisemitism. “The Doctors’ plot” is another bloody slander. Stalin’s death will cancel the reprisal, but the former official Russian-Jewish harmony during the socialism will not be restored.

The film is screened in Russian with English subtitles.