---
title: 'Happy Days (1991)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Aleksei Balabanov'
released: '1991-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 82
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/happy-days-1991'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102851/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Happy Days (1991)

1991 · 82 min · Drama · Soviet Union

Original title: Счастливые дни

## Synopsis

Happy Days is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. Based on Samuel Beckett's The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love (1945) as well as Happy Days (1961), it was Balabanov's feature film directorial debut. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Aleksei Balabanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksei-balabanov)
- **Screenplay:** [Aleksei Balabanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksei-balabanov), [Samuel Beckett](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-beckett)
- **Producer:** [Aleksei Yuryevich German](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksei-yuryevich-german)
- **Director of Photography:** [Sergey Astakhov](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergey-astakhov)

## Cast

- [Anzhelika Nevolina](https://cinepixo.com/people/anzhelika-nevolina)
- [Viktor Sukhorukov](https://cinepixo.com/people/viktor-sukhorukov)
- [Nikolay Lavrov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolay-lavrov)

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