Seekers of Happiness (1936)
During the 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family's immigration to Birobidzhan and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area.
Director:
Vladimir Korsh
Writers:
Grigoriy Kobetz, Iogann Zeltser.
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Venyamin Zuskin as Pinya Kopman |
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Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Dvoina |
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L.A. Shmidt as Rosa |
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Nikolai Valyano as Lyova |
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Sergei Yarov as Kornei |
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Iona Biy-Brodskiy as Shlyoma Petrovich |
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Georgiy Gorbunov as |
| Directing | Vladimir Korsh | Director |
| Writing | Grigoriy Kobetz | Screenplay |
| Writing | Iogann Zeltser | Screenplay |
| Directing | Iosif Shapiro | Co-Director |
| Directing | Nadezhda Brilliantshikova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Boris Ryabov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Konstantin Pogodin | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vladimir Pokrovskiy | Production Design |
| Art | A. Fedor | Assistant Production Design |
| Sound | Nikolai Kosarev | Sound Director |
| Sound | Kirill Poznyshev | Sound Director |
| Sound | Isaak Dunayevsky | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Solomon Mikhoels | Script Consultant |
| Sound | Sofya Ivnitskaya | Songs |
