{"id":505,"date":"2008-03-04T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/505"},"modified":"2008-03-04T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:36:00","slug":"happiness-1934-alexander-medvedkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/505","title":{"rendered":"Happiness (1934, Alexander Medvedkin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medvedkin: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[working on the film train] I came across a very interesting type of peasant, the sort who&#8217;d entered a kolkhoz [communal farm] but didn&#8217;t feel the true power of it and wasn&#8217;t happy there.  For such a peasant, life was hard.  No one liked him much, he was laughed at, and he was very unhappy.  I was thinking of him when I made Happiness.  Every man is seeking happiness.  Some see it in wealth, but the Russian peasant who struggled in poverty dreamt of it in his own way. &#8230; I tried to show the tragedy of such a man, and the effort he makes to find his ideal life.  His dreams couldn&#8217;t be very elaborate, of course, they were on his own scale but in his own way he was looking for happiness.  And in this film I tried to tell a story that&#8217;s funny, sad and tragic, the story of a peasant like him, Khmyr, for whom nothing goes right.  His life is a struggle&#8230; and totally unexpected to him, at the end of the film he finds that there are others who care about him, friends, neighbors, the government too.  And in a collective farm he comes close to happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny movie, with good performances by the lead actors (first screenshot), some real surprising moments (second screenshot), some scenes that deserve to be well-known Classic Moments in film-school montages (third screenshot) and a good <em>Ivan The Terrible<\/em> beard shot (fourth screenshot).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/happiness1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/happiness2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/happiness3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/happiness4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medvedkin: [working on the film train] I came across a very interesting type of peasant, the sort who&#8217;d entered a kolkhoz [communal farm] but didn&#8217;t feel the true power of it and wasn&#8217;t happy there. For such a peasant, life was hard. No one liked him much, he was laughed at, and he was very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,7,45,64],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-chris-marker","tag-russia","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}