Children Must Laugh

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.

Director

Aleksander Ford

Writers

Jacob Pat, Wanda Wasilewska

Released

December 31, 1936

Language

Yiddish