Seekers of Happiness
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.
Top Billed Cast
Venyamin Zuskin
Pinya Kopman
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Dvoina
L.A. Shmidt
Rosa
Nikolai Valyano
Lyova
Sergei Yarov
Kornei
Featured Crew
Iogann Zeltser
Screenplay
Grigoriy Kobetz
Screenplay
Vladimir Korsh
Director
Iosif Shapiro
Co-Director
Nadezhda Brilliantshikova
Assistant Director
B. Ryabov
Director of Photography
Konstantin Pogodin
Director of Photography
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Production Design
A. Fedor
Assistant Production Design
Nikolai Kosarev
Sound Director
K. Poznyshev
Sound Director
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
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