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Seekers of Happiness is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 7 october 1936 with Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina
Seekers of Happiness (1936)
Iskateli schastya
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Add to a movie listSeekers of Happiness is a Soviet propaganda film from 1936 trying to attract Jews for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) in the far east of the USSR.
Alternative names: A Greater Promise, Iskateli schastya (Искатели счастья)
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The film tells the story of a Jewish family relocating to the JAO (aka Birobidžan). The plot mingles two problematic love stories and a criminal plot to a narration about the successful solution of the “Jewish Question” in the JAO. The love stories and the criminal plot function as a narrative basis on which the overcoming of several obstacles are told:Actors
Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina
(Dvoina)
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