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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.