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.
- Released
- 1936-09-25
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Iogann Zeltser, Grigoriy Kobetz, Vladimir Korsh
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Dvoira
- Venyamin Zuskin as Pinya Kopman
- Lyubov Shmidt as Rosa
- Lyudmila Tayts as Basya Kopman
- Aleksandr Karev as Natan
- Sergei Yarov as Kornei
- Boris Zhukovsky as Kornei's Father
- Iona Biy-Brodskiy as Shlyoma Petrovich
- Nikolai Valyano as Lyova (uncredited)
- Aleksandr Melnikov as Solomon (uncredited)
- Emil Gal as Zionist (uncredited)
- Georgiy Gorbunov as (uncredited)