The Return of Nathan Becker (Russian: Возвращение Нейтана Беккера, romanized: Vozvrashchenie Neytana Bekkera) is a 1932[1][2] Soviet drama film directed and written by Rachel Milman-Creamer[3] and Boris Shpis.
Notable mostly for the performance of Solomon Mikhoels, one of the leading lights of Moscow State Jewish Theatre, and for being the only Soviet film ever shot in both Russian and Yiddish.
He brings with him his wife (Yelena Kashnitskaya) and a black friend, Jim, (Senegalese actor Kador Ben-Salim).
The film takes place during the time of the first Five-Year Plan, which was an attempt to increase productivity in the Soviet Union.
“In the screen telling of this simple tale the directors have presented many highly entertaining incidents of Jewish life in the Russia of today and have refrained from dwelling too much upon the building activities.