Happy Birthday!

1h 9m

6

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.

Cast

Gulnara Mkhitaryan

Evgeniya Turkina

Lyubov Starkova

Oksana Pototskaya

Lyudmila Kuznetsova

Murad Ibragimbekov

Natalya Pyankova

Gennadi Sidorov

Ravshana Kurkova

Svetlana Shershneva

Crew

Larisa Sadilova

Director, Screenplay

Natalya Sazhina

Irina Uralskaya

Director of Photography

Aleksandr Kazarenskov

Director of Photography

Pavel Trubnikov

Additional Director of Photography

Anatoly Petriga

Additional Director of Photography

Nikolai Puchkov

Additional Director of Photography

Additional Director of Photography

Andrey Kapranov

Additional Director of Photography

Gennadi Sidorov

Production Design

Irina Tolmachyova

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Original Music Composer

Georgy Sviridov

Original Music Composer