Heir To An Execution
2004·Movie·1h 39m
Documentary, History
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.
- Directed by
- Ivy Meeropol
- Original language
- English
- Released
- 1 January 2004
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Cast
- MS
Morton Sobell
Self
- MM
Michael Meeropol
Self
- BC
Bob Considine
Self - International News Service
- SK
Sally Kanter Bruin
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
- AO
Abe Osheroff
Self - Union Activist
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
- DG
David Greenglass
Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
- EB
Emanuel Bloch
Self - the Rosenbergs' attorney
- GM
Greg Meeropol
Self - grandson of the Rosenbergs
- RM
Robert Meeropol
Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
- MM
Miriam Moskowitz
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg