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Happiness / Schastye Series: Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking [Jan 25 - Feb 14 2008] Director: Aleksandr Medvedkin, Country: USSR, Release: 1934, Runtime: 66 Anarchic in its humor, caustic in its view of peasant life, Happiness defies easy categorization or definition. The painted backdrops inspired by Russian wood prints evoke the atmosphere of a Russian folk tale and give the action a curious theatricality. The story concerns a poor and lazy peasant, Khmyr, who hates work of any kind and dreams of doing nothing. Before the Revolution, he and his much more industrious wife Anna eke out a living through a combination of improbable good luck and cutting corners wherever they can. After the revolution, the local peasants all decide to form a collective and Khmyr and Anna are invited to join — but can this committed slacker ever be trusted? Eisenstein among others strongly defended Happiness, but its ambiguity unsettled the authorities, who effectively banned the film until the ‘60s — when it was re-discovered by new generations of filmmakers and film lovers both in Russia and internationally.

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