Happiness
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Happiness

Счастье | Schaste

63 mins
8.2 / 10 (541)
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Synopsis

Aleksandr Medvedkin’s Happiness, as rowdy as any Soviet silent movie, is a comic parable composed of equal parts of Tex Avery and Luis Buñuel. It satirizes the plight of a Soviet farmer who finds himself providing for the state, the church, and his peers at the expense of personal satisfaction.

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It is said that Sergei Eisenstein, upon watching Happiness, exclaimed “Today I saw how a Bolshevik laughs!” A Soviet-style comedy, it was forgotten in the West before being rediscovered in the mid-60s, influencing young radical filmmakers such as Chris Marker.

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