Film

Happy Birthday!

1998 · 1h 9m · Drama

IMDb

6.3

Blending dramatic situations with a documentary-influenced visual style, Happy Birthday looks in at a typical day in a Russian maternity hospital. The patients range from a middle aged woman pleased if surprised by her current pregnancy to a Muslim woman whose marriage to a Russian has blighted her relationship with her family. No matter what their situations, the women draw strength and support from each other as they share their common experience.

Gulnara Mkhitaryan

Lyuba

Irina Proshina

Evgeniya Turkina

Mariya Kuzmina

Rano Kubaeva

Zulfiya

Lyubov Starkova

Oksana Pototskaya

Raisa Sazonova

Lyudmila Kuznetsova

Oleg Ukhov

Oleg Vasilkov

Murad Ibragimbekov

Natalya Pyankova

Gennadi Sidorov

Ravshana Kurkova

Svetlana Shershneva

• Larisa SadilovaDirector · Screenplay
• Gennadi SidorovProducer
• Irina UralskayaDirector of Photography
• Aleksandr KazarenskovDirector of Photography
• Sergei RachmaninoffOriginal Music Composer
• Georgy SviridovOriginal Music Composer
• Natalya SazhinaEditor
• Elena DanshinaEditor

Release date

July 1, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Drama