Happiness

1934 · 63 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 1,229 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Medvedkin

Overview

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.

Comedy1930s

Dialogue Timeline — 92 lines

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00:00:16 A FILM BY ALEXANDER MEDVEDKIN
00:00:35 his horse-wife Anna
00:01:03 That's what I call living like a tsar!
00:03:31 One broken padlock, 1 rouble 50.
00:04:38 Go and find happiness
00:06:06 Buy something nice for your wife!
00:06:59 Right, thou shalt neither die nor live.
00:10:11 Here is happiness!
00:13:09 Lord, give me a life of ease and plenty.
00:20:07 Bloodsucker!
00:22:21 For this, for that, for the tax, for the arrears...
00:24:56 Help! Stop, thief!
00:25:22 Locks, padlocks and dogs, all to guard nothing!
00:25:48 Here's one rouble twenty, go to bed!
00:28:10 Sacrilege! Do you think you can die without permission?
00:30:30 Who gave you the right to an improvised death?
00:32:29 And 7 times they killed him in the Carpathians.
00:33:18 Anna was happy and she bloomed.
00:34:57 He'll not turn his nose up at what's offered on a plateau.
00:38:49 leave the kolkhoz and be free!
00:41:15 Guard it like the apple of your eyes!
00:52:11 Go, Khmyr! We'll never make a man of you!
00:53:05 I don't know how to live like now.
01:09:03 MOSKINO KOMBINAT STUDIO

Cast & Characters

Pyotr Zinovyev Khmyr - an ill-fated mujik Yelena Yegorova Anna Khmyrova - the mujik's wife Mikhail Gipsi Taras Platonovich Viktor Kulakov V. Lavrentyev G. Mirgorian Lyubov Nenasheva Nun V. Uspensky Nikolay Cherkasov Undetermined Role

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed92
Dialogue density1.5 lines / min
First line00:00:16
Final line01:09:03

Production Record

DirectorAleksandr Medvedkin
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes1,229