A Portrait on the Search for Happiness
At the edge of the South African desert, bordered by a deep cold sea, hundreds of young men dig illegally for the purest diamonds in the world. A poetic journey through the desert, the wind and the sand.
A Portrait on the Search for Happiness
Benjamin Rost
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany, South Africa 2020
- Language
- en., af., zu., xh. OF mit de. UT
- Format
- Color, 73min
Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Benjamin Rost
Born in 1987 in Augsburg. Studied at the Bavarian Television Academy (BAF), followed by studies in Philosophy in Munich and studies at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Active as a documentary filmmaker for the cinema and television.
Filmography
2015
- DIE BESCHÜTZER, Kurzdokumentarfilm
2018
- NACHTWANDERER, Dokumentarfilm
- ELLA, Kurzfilm
2020
- A PORTRAIT ON THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, Dokumentarfilm HOF 2020
- Writer
- Benjamin Rost
- Director of Photography
- Johannes Greisle
- Editor
- Robin Jünkersfeld
- Sound
- David Kalla
- Elmar Szücs
- Sound Designer
- Volker Armbruster
- Music Composer
- Philip Miller
- TV Commissioning Editor
- Marcus Vetter
