Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story (2004)
Heir to an Execution
99 min
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.
- Release date
- January 1, 2004
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Human
Cast
- Robert Meeropol as Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
- Morton Sobell as Self - co-defendant
- Sally Kanter Bruin as Self - schoolmate of Ethel Rosenberg
- Abe Osheroff as Self - Union Activist
- Miriam Moskowitz as Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
- Rachel Meeropol as Self - Robert's daughter
Crew
- Bob Considine · Archive footage
- J. Edgar Hoover · Archive footage
- Joseph McCarthy · Archive footage
- Richard Nixon · Archive footage
- Ivy Meeropol · Director
- Marc Levin · Producer
- Ivy Meeropol · Producer
- Daphne Pinkerson · Producer
- Human · Composer
- Matthew Akers · Cinematographer
- Ivy Meeropol · Cinematographer
- Eric Seuel Davies · Editor
- Ken Eluto · Editor