Aleksandr MEDVEDKIN Александр МЕДВЕДКИН Aleksandr MEDVEDKINE   USSR, 1934, 66 mn  Black and white, silent, fiction

Happiness / Money-Grubbers ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Счастье    Le Bonheur  Schastie

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Plot synopsis

A philosophical fairy tale made in the style of Russian lubok, about the hapless money-grubber Khmyr, his horse-wife Anna, about the fat neighbour Foka, and about the priest, about the nun and other scarecrows. "Devoted to last collective-farm idler". The film "Happiness" brought Alexander Medvedkin wide popularity, and it was highly praised by Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Dovzhenko. In the 1970s it was shown on TV in Europe and America.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Happiness [Счастье, director : Aleksandr MEDVEDKIN, 1934], Elise THORSEN, Theodora Kelly TRIMBLE, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2012

Camp Cinema : Russian Style, rusfilm.pitt.edu, 2012

Happiness [Счастье], rusfilm.pitt, 2003

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2012

- Festival "Polka. liberated cinema", Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Russian epopee in the Institut de l'image of Aix en Provence, Aix en Provence (France), 2010

- Aubagne International Film Festival, Aubagne (France), 2008

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2001

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Photos and videos

 

Film with English subtitles : Click here

 

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