Aleksey BALABANOV
Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ
Alekseï BALABANOV
USSR, 1991, 86mn 
Black and white, fiction
Happy Days
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Счастливые дни

 

 Oh, les beaux jours

 Schastlivye dni

 
Directed by : Aleksey BALABANOV (Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksey BALABANOV (Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ)
 
Cast
Nikolay LAVROV (Николай ЛАВРОВ)
Evgeniy MERKURYEV (Евгений МЕРКУРЬЕВ)
Anjelika NEVOLINA (Анжелика НЕВОЛИНА)
Aleksey OLENNIKOV (Алексей ОЛЕННИКОВ)
Viktor SUKHORUKOV (Виктор СУХОРУКОВ)
Georgi TEJKH (Георгий ТЕЙХ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey ASTAKHOV (Сергей АСТАХОВ)
Produced by : Aleksey GERMAN (Алексей ГЕРМАН)
Production : Lenfilm
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media, Kinopoisk
Awards :
 - Prix du meilleur film au festival la Jeunesse, 1991, Kiev
- Prix du meilleur long métrage au festival des Débuts, 1992, Moscou
Plot synopsis
Based on S.Beckett’s works. First he was beaten up, them thrown out into the street. But the young man survived and became absolutely free. Having lost his memory he gradually looses everything else which connects him to real life (one nice lady calls him Sergei Sergeevich for the sake of convenience). We witness his refusal to accept love, compassion, life…
 
Commentaries
Escapism by Design. Paper Architecture in Late Soviet Cinema, Raymond DELUCA, eefb.org, 2021
Город в кино. История вопроса, Liubov ARKUS, Олег КОВАЛОВ, seance.ru, 2012
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Architecture and Social Life in Russian Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2019
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2003
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1992
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