Happy Days (1991)
Счастливые дни
After being released from a St. Petersburg hospital with a head injury, a nameless protagonist wanders through a desolate, crumbling city in search of a place to stay. As he struggles to reconstruct his identity and find a sense of belonging, he roams the bleak streets and is befriended by an eccentric beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.
- Date of release
- 1991-06-22
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (28)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Aleksei Balabanov
Casting
- Viktor Sukhorukov — Him
- Anzhelika Nevolina — girl
- Evgeniy Merkurev — man with donkey
- Georgiy Teykh — father of blind man
- Nikolay Lavrov — Sergei Sergeevich Sysoyev
- Arkady Sharogradsky — head of the laundry
- Alexey Olennikov
- Milena Tontegode — Sergey Sergeevich's wife
- Tatyana Stepanova — nurse
- Lyubov Tishchenko — apartment owner
- Marina Yurasova — apartment owner
Interesting facts
Happy Days is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. Based on Samuel Beckett's The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love (1945) as well as Happy Days (1961), it was Balabanov's feature film directorial debut. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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