"HAPPINESS" "A Tale of a Hapless Mercenary Khmyr," "His Horse-Wife Anna," "His Well-Fed Neighbor Foka, and Also of a Priest, a Nun and Other Old Relics." "Dedicated to the last collective-farm loafer." "Written and Directed by Aleksandr MEDVEDKIN" "Cinematography by Gleb TROYANSKY" "Production Designer A.A. UTKIN" "Starring" "Pyotr ZINOVYEV as Khmyr Yelena YEGOROVA as Anna" "What is happiness?" "There it is, the life of a tsar!" "Have been farming for 60 years, but never tried dumplings yet..." "And the old man decided:" "I may go and steal but try dumplings before I die." "For the broken lock... 1 ruble 30 kopecks." "Boards for a coffin... 2.15." "And the nails... 60 kopecks." "Money!" "Give me the money!" "Go search for happiness and do not return empty-handed!" "At that time, in the town of Tir of Sidon there lived Yepiphan the selfless." "Take this five-kopeck coin, Father!" "Take it and buy your wife a present!" "And we'll pray for the selfless Yepiphan." "You go left - you meet your death." "You go straight... you drop dead." "You go right... you don't die but you don't live either." "A dashing merchant was returning from a market." "I'll dive and dive, and come out with the wallet." "Father!" "My dear, why did you die?" "This is happiness!" "This is happiness!" "But the horse was voracious, and the Khmyrs had no fodder." "Oh God Jesus Christ!" "You've given me a horse." "Help me, God, have a most well-fed life." "My man!" "Oh, if I were a tsar, I would eat butter with butter!" "Bloodsucker!" "You have no fear of God!" "For ploughing... 7 rubles." "And we divide the harvest fifty-fifty." "And the Khmyrs happened to get a bumper crop." "One man sows and seven reap." "For this and that, for taxes and debts..." "For the hay the ploughing the seeds the harrow the grain the potatoes and the coffin." "Help!" "Robbers!" "I was stealing for 10 years in Voronezh, was robbing Tsaryovo-Kokshaisk for 3 years," "but nowhere had I been cheated like this, by hiding under locks and bolts and dogs an entirely empty place!" "My dears!" "Is it any of my fault..." "They just won't come my way, the goods..." "You... mercenary!" "Here's a ruble 20 for you, and go to bed!" "I'm going to die now!" "If the man dies, you'll answer before the tsar and God for it!" "You blaspheming?" "!" "Dreaming of dying on your own?" "If the man dies, who will feed Russia?" "Who gave you the permission to die on your own?" "You rioting, the cursed one!" "Who permitted you to take death of your own will?" "Flog him half to death, but so that he lives!" "And they flogged Khmyr for thirty and three years." "And they shot him on 12 fronts." "He was killed in the Carpathians seven times." "And Khmyr had lost all faith in happiness." "Even when he got on a collective farm," "Khmyr became the poorest farmer - a water-carrier." "Anna was blossoming with the joy of life." "Search for Khmyr, shock-workers!" "The machine won't run without water!" "Foka, the die-hard enemy, was still alive." "If it were not for a hole in his mouth, he would have driven by." "I'll report on you, you loafer." "And I'll write a complaint about you, you alcoholic!" "Let me go, dear Anna, let me go free from the collective farm!" "At liberty I'll be my own lord and master." "Aren't you afraid to be left without bread for the winter?" "Then sit and guard your collective-farm harvest." "Guard it with your life, Khmyr!" "But there still remained swindlers on the earth." "Anna Khmyr, 283 workdays." "Such a priest is dying!" "Go away, Khmyr!" "You'll never make a real man!" "Why are you crying, Khmyr?" "How can I, Khmyr, not cry?" "I can't live the old way and I don't know how to live the new way." "Let's go, dear Khmyr!" "I'll teach you how to live in this world." "The End"