Movie · 99 min · 15 · doc, hst
When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every family member refused to take them in. Documentarian Ivy Meeropol, raised to believe in her grandparents' innocence, begins investigating what actually happened, interviewing family members and friends. With declassified papers indicating Julius was participating in espionage in some capacity, Ivy tries to understand the beliefs that drove the couple.
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Available languages
Audio: English, Polish
Subtitles: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Hungarian, MK, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian
Cast
Morton Sobell, Michael Meeropol, Bob Considine, Sally Kanter Bruin, Abe Osheroff, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, David Greenglass, Emanuel Bloch, Greg Meeropol, Robert Meeropol, Miriam Moskowitz, Joseph McCarthy, Rachel Meeropol, Jenny Meeropol, Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg
Crew
Marc Levin (producer), Ivy Meeropol (director)