Happiness is the stylized Russian folk tale about a poor and lazy peasant by the name of Khmyr, who dreams of becoming a tsar, eating his fill of pork fat and doing nothing (his idea of happiness), and his industrious wife, Anna, who found real happiness on a collective farm after the revolution. The film contains drawn scenery amusingly transplanted into cinema from popular Russian wood prints, ingenious and always purposeful tricks, hilarious scenes of the wanderings around Russia of a scraggly and vicious pilgrim nun, and talented sideshows of “dreams”and “royal repasts”of Khmyr. Considered one of the masters of Russia’s revolution generation filmmakers and nicknamed Russia’s Chaplin by Eisenstein, Aleksandr Medvedkin presents the epitomy of comedy and tragedy through over-the-top satire and humor in this film.