SCHASTJE

Happiness

Sergej Dvortsevoj
Kazakhstan, Russia 1995 | 23 Min. | 35 mm, OmeU

The eating and sleep­ing room of a family, a cow with her head stuck in a milk churn, the wash­ing of a person’s hair, a hungry and tired child in a yurt: a strong poem of moving pic­tures, made up from frag­ments of a hard but rich life. The direc­tor spent more than a month living in a herdman’s family. They got used to have the camera around them: »I wanted to shoot every­thing spon­ta­neous­ly with­out having worked out any­thing before, with­out lies.«