Seekers of Happiness

5.7
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 84 min
  • Premiere: 1936. September 25.

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.

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Art

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Production Design

A. Fedor

Assistant Production Design

Camera

B. Ryabov

Director of Photography

Konstantin Pogodin

Director of Photography

Directing

Vladimir Korsh

Director

Iosif Shapiro

Co-Director

Nadezhda Brilliantshikova

Assistant Director

Sound

Nikolai Kosarev

Sound Director

K. Poznyshev

Sound Director

Isaak Dunayevsky

Original Music Composer

Writing

Iogann Zeltser

Screenplay

Grigoriy Kobetz

Screenplay

Solomon Mikhoels

Script Consultant

Art

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Production Design

A. Fedor

Assistant Production Design

Camera

B. Ryabov

Director of Photography

Konstantin Pogodin

Director of Photography

Directing

Vladimir Korsh

Director

Iosif Shapiro

Co-Director

Nadezhda Brilliantshikova

Assistant Director

Sound

Nikolai Kosarev

Sound Director

K. Poznyshev

Sound Director

Isaak Dunayevsky

Original Music Composer

Writing

Iogann Zeltser

Screenplay

Grigoriy Kobetz

Screenplay

Solomon Mikhoels

Script Consultant