Happiness (Russian: Счастье, romanized: Schastye) is a 1935 silent satirical slapstick (or rather lubok[1]) comedy set in the Russian Empire before the October Revolution and in the Soviet Union at the time of the collectivization.
Medvedkin's original title was The Snatchers or The Possessors (Стяжатели).
[2] The original print featured an experimental color sequence illustrating a poor peasant's dreams of becoming a king.
[2] The sequence was discarded on account of its poor technical quality and is apparently lost.
[3] It was especially championed by Chris Marker who included some excerpts from Happiness in his 1992 documentary The Last Bolshevik.