Happy Birthday!

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.

• Larisa SadilovaDirector
• Sergei RachmaninoffOriginal Music Composer
• Georgy SviridovOriginal Music Composer
• Larisa SadilovaScreenplay

• Gulnara MkhitaryanLyuba
• Irina ProshinaCast
• Evgeniya TurkinaCast
• Mariya KuzminaCast
• Rano KubaevaZulfiya
• Lyubov StarkovaCast
• Oksana PototskayaCast
• Raisa SazonovaCast
• Lyudmila KuznetsovaCast
• Oleg UkhovCast
• Oleg VasilkovCast
• Murad IbragimbekovCast