Escape to the Sun

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Escape to the Sun is a 1972 drama film about Soviet Jews attempting to flee religious persecution, featuring Josephine Chaplin in a leading role.

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Escape to the Sun canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf drama film
film
basedOn novel by Dan Vered
novel by Uri Dan
countryOfOrigin Israel
United States of America
surface form: United States
director Menahem Golan
distributor American International Pictures
featuresCharacterType Jewish activists
Soviet dissidents
genre drama film
political drama film
hasCastMember Dahn Ben Amotz
Gila Almagor
Jack Hawkins
John Ireland
Joseph Shiloach
Josephine Chaplin
Laurence Harvey
Lila Kedrova
Oded Kotler
Shmuel Rodensky
Yehuda Efroni
Yossi Graber
Zeev Revach
hasFemaleLead Josephine Chaplin
hasTheme emigration
human rights
political oppression
religious freedom
locationOfStory Israel
Soviet Union
mainSubject Soviet Jewry
surface form: Soviet Jews

refugees
religious persecution
narrativeFocus attempt to flee the Soviet Union
struggle for religious freedom
originalLanguage English
partOf Israeli cinema of the 1970s
producer Menahem Golan
productionCompany Golan-Globus Productions
publicationDate 1972
runtime approximately 95 minutes
screenwriter Menahem Golan
title Escape to the Sun self-link

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Josephine Chaplin notableWork Escape to the Sun
Escape to the Sun title Escape to the Sun self-link