A review in the Jewish Exponent: "In her documentary Operation Wedding, Anat Zalmanson Kuznetzov provides a moving, deeply human telling of her parents’ story, in which — unlike a 2010 Russian film interpretation — her parents are not terrorists."
Read more: (scroll to middle of the page)
Saturday, March 11
Getting ready for the screening
5pm
Marina Furman came to pick me p for a dinner before the screening. Marina, former famous refusnik and now JNF Executive Director, Eastern PA and Southern NJ, first took me to a Soviet Jewry Forest monument: there are not many of those. So far I only found three
7pm
People will soon arrive. A good time to take a picture with the lovely festivals organizers Have and Cindy
8pm
People are seated and Marvin Verman gives his remarks, too bad I didn't catch it on video it was very powerful! Marvin helped bring to film in Philadelphia and he was one of the major activits in the 70's to free Soviet Jewry. Thank you Marvin!
Marina Furman also gave her remarks, watch the video:
10pm
"A bottle (of Vodka) a day, keeps the doctor away"
(Edward Kuznetsov, 2015 Operation Wedding) Vodka pouring like water in the film, and the Furman family came with pickles and vodka to toast for the film's future success after Philadelphia premiere.
Another interesting fact about Lev Furman - he was offered to join the original escape plan: which including 64 people in a bigger plane, he agreed right away! The Leningrad group changed their minds and so the Riga group continued the plan without them, though Lev would have been happy to join the Riga group!
But that's another story...
Sunday, March 12
Finally some time to see the city...
Tomorrow I'm leaving home and I'll be back in May!
Toronto-Philadelphia-NYC-NJ-Detroit-Washington DC
