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.

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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

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