Refusenik

REFUSENIK is the first documentary to chronicle the thirty year international movement to free Soviet Jews. What started as a small 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, many of whom survived punishment in Soviet Gulag labor camps, the film is a tapestry of first-person accounts of heroism, sacrifice and, ultimately, liberation.