Schast'e
The peasant Hmyr’ paces the roads in search of happiness. He finds a bag of silver and buys himself a horse with which to have a good harvest. But a lord dispossesses him immediately of all his goods. In despair, Hmyr’ wants to end his life. The police accuses him of being a freethinker and order him whipped and sent off to war. After the victory of the October Revolution, the peasants of the village regroup in collective farms. Hmyr’ joins them and finds his happiness in his work on the kholkhoz. Silent film masterpiece, political and poetic fable, social film and ironic comedy, Alexander Medvedkin’s film was restored in 1999 by Russian Public Television and the State Film Fund of the Russian Federation. “In this way the methods of each sequence are observed, and within each shot, they appear as illustrations of the most recent slogans, theses that can be read without the slightest difficulty, but at the same time the power of the image, the art of the shot, of characterization and situation are not diminished one iota… An interesting artist and filmmaker, full of originality and promise, has joined our cinematic art form.” (anonymous, Russia 1935)
Russia - 1934 - 1 h 06 mn - 35 mm • 1,33 - Black & white
Réalisation
Alexandre Medvedkine
Scénario
Alexandre Medvedkine
Image
Gleb Troyansky
Son
Mikhail Spassky, Irina Moiseeva
Décors
Alexey Utkin
Musique
Alexey Aigi
Interprétation
Petr Zinoviev, Elena Egorova, Lidia Nevacheva, V. Uspensky, G. Mirgorian, V. Lavrentiev
Restauration
Vladimir Malyshev, Vladimir Dmitriev
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