

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History
Keywords: imdb.reference-to-sergei-eisenstein, imdb.banned, imdb.stalinism, imdb.ideology, imdb.the-great-purge, imdb.sovkino, imdb.russian-revolution + 64 more, imdb.russian-filmmaking, imdb.rifle-camera, imdb.red-cavalry, imdb.perestrojka, imdb.movie-camera, imdb.miner, imdb.reference-to-god, imdb.film-train, imdb.film-essay, imdb.dziga-vertov, imdb.crimea, imdb.collective-farmer, imdb.agitprop, imdb.world-war-one, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.tsar, imdb.director, imdb.film-director, imdb.communism, imdb.soviet-union-history, imdb.20th-century, imdb.ukraine, imdb.russian-history, imdb.rifle, imdb.prayer, imdb.peasant, imdb.newsreel-footage, imdb.letter, imdb.interview, imdb.filmmaker, imdb.film-history, imdb.father-daughter-relationship, imdb.documentary-filmmaking, imdb.controversy, imdb.communist, imdb.censorship, imdb.battle, imdb.trial, imdb.train, imdb.toy, imdb.spy, imdb.soviet-union, imdb.reference-to-joseph-stalin, imdb.soviet-army, imdb.russian-avant-garde, imdb.revolution, imdb.propaganda, imdb.october-revolution, imdb.nazi, imdb.marxism, imdb.kino, imdb.interval, imdb.horse, imdb.futurism, imdb.fall-of-communism, imdb.dinosaur, imdb.cult-director, imdb.cow, imdb.cat, imdb.bolshevism, imdb.bolshevik, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.filmmaking, mdblist.has-trailer
Watch Providers: OVID
Production companies: Les Films de l'Astrophore, CNC