The Israel Film Service Collection

Moscow Days

25 Minutes, 1999
Genre:
Documentary

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Directed by: Boris Maftsir
Production:Michal Avram
Production Company:Israel Film Service
Photographer: Avi Abramov
Languages: Hebrew, Russian
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Subtitles: English, Hebrew

In this documentary film produced by the Israeli Film Service in cooperation with Telad, director Boris Maftzir explores the complex and sometimes-fraught relationship between the State of Israel and Moscow’s Jewish community during the 1990s. In the early days of the Soviet Union’s collapse, as uncertainty reigned and Muscovites rioted against the Jewish population, initial ties began to be established between Israel’s diplomats and Russia’s Jews. Israel’s purpose was to boost Russian Alyiah as much as possible and to prevent visa holders from “dropping off” and emigrating to Europe instead. However, when Muscovite Jews arrived in Israel, they often found themselves discouraged by a society unwilling to adjust for their benefit. Nearly ten years later, in 1999, many Jews have returned to Moscow in pursuit of better material conditions and a spot in its now-thriving Jewish community. Their reasoning for doing so is explored in interviews with prominent Jewish-Russian figures, such as Yakov Kedmi, Michael Chelnov, Yevgeny Satanovsky and others.

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