In Search of Happiness (2005)
- Original title
- V Poiskach Schastia
- Directed by
- Alexander Gutman
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Russia
- Runtime
- 52 min
- 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.
How it feels
This documentary follows Boris and Masha Rak, two Soviet Jews who moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1934. It shows their life in Birobidzhan, where the Jewish population has declined sharply over the decades.
poeticreflectivemelancholicslow-pacedobservationalintimatehistoricalcontemplative
What happens
In Search of Happiness (Russian: В поисках счастья) is a 2005 Russian documentary film that poetically follows the lives of Boris and Masha Rak, Soviet Jews who in 1934 moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) created by the Soviet government in Russian Far East. The film won the Best Documentary award in the Russian Film Festival in 2006. The Jewish population of the JAO never reached 30% and as of 2003 it was only about 1.2%. The population of the capital, Birobidzhan, has dwindled. The city's only Birobidzhan Synagogue holds services twice a week. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Long, Long Childhood (2005)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.