Happy Days (Счастливые дни, Schastlivye dni), Alexei Balabanov,1991.

First full feature film by the most enigmatic Russian maverick director A. Balabanov, in which he starts his cinematic-allegorical discussion of post-Soviet identity. For more detail on the Master’s approach to film see ’Path of Blood: The Post-Soviet Gangster, His Mistress and Their Others in Aleksei Balabanov’s Genre Films’.