Genres
Duration
99 min
Director
Ivy Meeropol
Rating
6.9
Release Date
December 31, 2003
Heir To An Execution
Original title: Heir To An Execution
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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.
Heir To An Execution cast
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Morton Sobell
Character:
Self
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Michael Meeropol
Character:
Self
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Bob Considine
Character:
Self - International News Service
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Sally Kanter Bruin
Character:
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
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Abe Osheroff
Character:
Self - Union Activist
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J. Edgar Hoover
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Richard Nixon
Character:
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
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David Greenglass
Character:
Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
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Emanuel Bloch
Character:
Self - the Rosenbergs' attorney
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Greg Meeropol
Character:
Self - grandson of the Rosenbergs
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Robert Meeropol
Character:
Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
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Miriam Moskowitz
Character:
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
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Joseph McCarthy
Character:
Self - Senator
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Rachel Meeropol
Character:
Self - Robert's daughter
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Jenny Meeropol
Character:
Self - granddaughter of the Rosenbergs
