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Happiness is a film of genre Drama directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin released in USA on 7 april 1935 with Nikolai Cherkasov
Happiness (1934)
Счастье
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Add to a movie listThis page is about the Soviet film. For the French film, see Le Bonheur (1934 film).
Happiness (Russian: Счастье, Schastye) is a 1934 silent satirical slapstick (or rather lubok) comedy set in the Russian Empire before the October Revolution and in the Soviet Union at the time of the collectivization. Medvedkin's original title was The Snatchers or The Possessors (Стяжатели).
The original print featured an experimental color sequence illustrating a poor peasant's dreams of becoming a king. It was the first color production of the Mosfilm studio. According to Medvedkin, "At that time the peasant could not dream of anything multicoloured of beautiful. His dream was limited, and in that the technology helped". The sequence was discarded on account of its poor technical quality and is apparently lost.
Unnoticed on its release, Happiness became well known in the 1960s among film scholars. It was especially championed by Chris Marker who included some excerpts from Happiness in his 1992 documentary The Last Bolshevik.
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Le film narre l'histoire allégorique d'un paysan russe, ainsi que de sa femme et de leur voisin. Il retrace leurs diverses conditions de vie sous le tsarisme, comme sous le régime communiste.Actors
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