Seekers of Happiness (1936)

Original title

Искатели счастья

Directed by

Iosif Shapiro, Vladimir Korsh-Sablin

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of Jewish families move to a remote region in the Soviet far east to build new lives as farmers. The film follows their efforts to work the land and find community.

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What happens

Seekers of Happiness (Russian: Искатели счастья, romanized: Iskateli schastya) is a Soviet film from 1936 trying to attract Jews to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) in the far east of the USSR. It is also known by its alternative name, A Greater Promise. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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