Song of Happiness (1934)

7.0/10 85 min

Overview

A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.

Cast

Vladimir Gardin

Карл Францевич Виатачек

Yanina Zheymo

Анук

Boris Tenin

Горох / Цыбуля

Boris Chirkov

Head of the political education department

Fyodor Nikitin

Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy

Evgeniy Velikhov

Leonid Kmit

Gryaznov

Nikolai Michurin

Ivan Nikitich Lebedev

Aleksandr Melnikov

Nikolai Valyano

Viktor Portnov

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