The Refusenik Experience February 12, 2012

11 A.M. - Refusenik (2007, 120 min.)

Produced and directed by Laura Bialis.
Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Refusenik documents the 30-year struggle to liberate the Jews of the Soviet Union.

2:30 P.M. - And the Wind Returneth
(1991, 133 min., Russian with English subtitles)

Written and directed by Mikhail Kalik; post-screening discussion with film historian Olga Gershenson, UMass Amherst.
Filmmaker Mikhail Kalik left the U.S.S.R. for Israel in 1971. Eighteen years later, he returned to Moscow and began work on this autobiographical film, a combination of narrative and archival footage that attempts to bring personal and national histories into harmony.

For tickets call: 646.437.4202,
$10, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
(Price includes both films).

Location: 36 Battery Place

Visit: www.mjhnyc.org

Official Website: http://www.mjhnyc.org/calendar_feb12.html#refuse