Jewish Happiness

Feature film
Jewish Happiness
The film’s protagonist Mark, the last man of an old Jewish family living in Russia and then in the USSR, emigrates to his historical homeland in the early 90s. Under a formal pretext, Mark visits the small Russian town where he spent his childhood for just one day.
The film "Jewish Happiness" is part of an unimplemented project, a big saga about the fate of a Jewish family living in Russia in the twentieth century.

Authors
Director of production
Vitaly Mansky

Screenwriter
Gennady Ostrovsky

Director of photography
Sergey Yurizditsky

Production designer
Oleg Tagel

Artistic director and producer
Alexey German

Sound designer
Dmitry Orlov

Composer
Alexander Kharkovsky

Starring
Evgeny Steblov
Anna Matyukhina
Lyudmila Narovchatskaya

Production
Lenfilm

Russia
1990

42 min.

Language
Russian

Distribution
For film screening inquiries, please contact
Natalia Manskaia
natalia@artdocfest.com
Non-commercial screenings only!
Photos from the shooting
Made on
Tilda