Operation Wedding
2016 film by Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
Operation Wedding is a documentary film about the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair, an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Soviet Union by a group of young Soviet, mostly Jewish, who were denied exit visas. The documentary is told from a personal point of view of the filmmaker, Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov, daughter of group members: Eduard Kuznetsov and Sylva Zalmanson.
“Operation Wedding” enters the record as 2016 film by Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Operation, Wedding and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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