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Children Must Laugh

Children Must Laugh

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 1936

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Mir kumen on

Production Companies

Sanatorium im. Wlodzimierza Medema

Director

Aleksander Ford

Description

One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, an institution that stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.