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Escape to the Sun is a film of genre Drama directed by Menahem Golan with Laurence Harvey
Escape to the Sun (1972)
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Add to a movie listEscape to the Sun is a 1972 drama film written and directed by Menahem Golan and starring Laurence Harvey, Josephine Chaplin, John Ireland, Lila Kedrova and Jack Hawkins. The film was a co-production between Israel, France and West Germany.
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A group of people wish to flee the Soviet Union to escape anti-semitism and political repression, but their activities soon attract the attention of the KGB secret police. The film is based on a short story by author Uri Dan, and in turn based loosely on the events of the June 1970 "Leningrad hijack affair", in which a group of mostly Jews and two non-Jews unsuccessfully attempted to steal Soviet airplane and fly it to freedom.Actors
Laurence Harvey
(Major Kirsanov)
Josephine Chaplin
(Nina Kaplan)
Lila Kedrova
(Sarah Kaplan)
John Ireland
(Jacob Kagan)
Jack Hawkins
(Baburin)
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