Escape to the Sun Movie

Escape to the Sun
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Run Time: 105 min
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Released: 1972
Directors: Menahem Golan
Genre/Type: Drama
Thriller
Melodrama
Producers: Menahem Golan
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The ongoing plight of Russian Jewry serves as the backdrop for the Golan-Globus effort Escape to the Sun (Habricha el Hashemesh). Laurence Harvey is cast against type as Major Kirsanov, a nasty KGB officer who refuses to allow Soviet Jews Nina Kaplan (Josephine Chaplin, Charlie's daughter and Geraldine's sister) and Yasha Bazarov (Yuda Barkin) to emigrate to Israel. In desperation, Nina, Yasha and several others hijack a jetliner. Kirsanov foils the plan, but Nina and Yasha manage to escape--if you can call heading to the desolate Russian steppes an "escape." The actors are talented and the locations well chosen, but the script is a real let-down.

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0. The sun is not escaping from anything
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How does energy escape from the sun? This sounds like a simple question, you would think that energy would simply fly from this enormous body of gas towards us. It sounds very straightforward, doesn't it? However, this process, which en...

Cast

Actors Character Born
Laurence Harvey Maj. Kirsanov Oct 1, 1928 in Joniskis, Lithuania
Gila Almagor The Judge
Yehuda Efroni Romek
Josephine Chaplin Nina Kaplan
Clive Revill The Drunk Apr 18, 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand
Jack Hawkins Baburin Sep 1, 1910 in London, England, UK
John Ireland Jacob Kagan Jan 30, 1914 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Peter Capell Prof. Abramoviz
Lila Kedrova Sarah Kaplan
Yehuda Barkan Yasha Bazarov

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