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Happy Days is a film of genre Drama directed by Aleksei Balabanov with Viktor Soukhoroukov
Happy Days (1991)
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Add to a movie listHappy Days (Russian: Счастливые дни, translit. Schastlivye dni) is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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Viktor Soukhoroukov
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