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Competition program
We need happiness
  • 16+
  • 52 min
  • Russian
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This elderly woman keeps the economy of a large family. Yes, it cannot be otherwise, because she is a strong person, she survived the death of her husband, and persecution, and the change of eras, and the change of rulers. And a change of country. She is Russian, but she lived her life among the Kurds, in a Kurdish village in Iraq. Her life is now seen through the eyes of an unknown narrator, who has the voice of director Sokurov and comes from a clan of great narrators of Russian literary classics, including official Zaitsev and veteran of the Caucasian wars Maxim Maksimych.
Film crew
  • Director:
    Alexey Yankovsky, Alexander Sokurov
  • Screenwriter:
    Alexey Yankovsky, Alexander Sokurov
  • Cinematographer:
    Sara Cornu
  • Producer:
    Serge Lalu
  • Composer:
    Mehdi Hosseini
  • Sound operator:
    Dominique Vieillard
Information
  • Theme:
    Women, History, Lifestyle, Emigration, Biography
  • Film studio:
    Les Films d'Ici, Берег
  • Genre:
    Monologue, Interview, Drama
  • Country of action:
    Iraq, Russia
  • Place of action:
    Sankt-Peterburg
  • Period of action:
    2011
  • Language:
    Russian
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