Thursday, April 1

Pittsburgh Filmmakers-Melwood Screening Room

8:00PM
HEIR TO AN EXECUTION

HEIR TO AN EXECUTION

Director: Ivy Meeropol
2003. USA. 100min. English.
East Coast Premiere
8.00pm

Ivy Meeropol's HEIR TO AN EXECUTION chronicles her effort to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her father's parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed as traitors in 1953 after being accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. The film weaves archival footage, family home movies and Meeropol's conversations with her father, Michael Meeropol, his younger brother, Robert, other relatives and associates of the Rosenbergs. A deeply personal, occasionally heartbreaking affair, HEIR TO AN EXECUTION paints a rich portrait of a devoted couple whose names came to symbolize Cold War hysteria.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
www.blowbackproductions.com