- Summary
- In 1934, the Soviet Union founded the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, an independent communist state for Jews in a remote corner of Russia near the Chinese border. At it's peak, this "Soviet Zion," where the official language was Yiddish, attracted more than 5,000 foreign Jewish migrants from all over the world. Did Jewish pioneers come up with this idea and get approval from Stalin or did the Soviet dictator have his own reasons for supporting this migration? Belgian filmmaker Guy-Marc Hinant went to Birobidzhan, the former capitol, to ask these questions and explore this remarkable slice of history. What's left of Jewish culture there and who's living in the city now? Hinant focuses on the now-elderly people whose parents settled there and finds their memories tell a very different story from what is seen in the city today--Container.
- Uniform Title
- Birobidzhan (Motion picture: 2015)
- Variant Title
- Birobidjan
Birobidzhan
CVB présente en co-production avec Riche, Riche & Riche, WIP-Wallonie Image Production.
- Format
- Video
- Alternative Title
- ביראבידזשאן = Birobidjan : le nid est tombé dans les flammes / un film de Guy-Marc Hinant.
- Published
- Los Angeles, CA : Seventh Art Releasing, [2015]
- Locale
- Russia (Federation)
Birobidzhan
Birobidzhan (Russia)
Evreĭskai͡a avtonomnai͡a oblastʹ (Russia)
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hinant, Guy Marc, film director.
Riche, Riche & Riche (Firm), production company.
Wallonie Image Production, production company.
Seventh Art Releasing (Firm), film distributor.
- Notes
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Container cataloging.
Originally produced in Belgium in 2015.
"Authorized for eductional use."
Director, Guy-Marc Hinant.
In Russian and Yiddish with subtitles in French and English.
