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Birobidzhan / director, Vladimir Korsh ; writers, G. Kobets, Iogann Zeltser.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives DVD V0183
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Language:
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- Birobidzhan (Russia).
- Jews--Russia--Drama.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures, Russian.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009?]
- Language Note:
- In Russian with some Yiddish.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "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."--Imdb.com
- Participant:
- Venyamin Zuskin, Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, S.K. Yarof.
- Notes:
- Credits from Imdb.com, accessed Aug. 23, 2010.
- DVD copy of the 1936 production.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Disc V0183.
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