More Marker and Medvedkin
Chicago Filmmakers

Banned in Russia for over 40 years, Medvedkin?s comedy Happiness (67 min., 1934) is rife with risqu‚ satire and comic oddities, such as polka dotted horses and nuns in see-through tunics. This rare screening is paired with Chris Marker?s Letter From Siberia (60 min., 1957).


3/19/1995 - 3/19/1995


Banned in Russia for over 40 years, Medvedkin?s comedy Happiness (67 min., 1934) is rife with risqu‚ satire and comic oddities, such as polka dotted horses and nuns in see-through tunics.

This rare screening is paired with Chris Marker?s Letter From Siberia (60 min., 1957). From Mammoths to moon shots, Letter From Siberia offers marker?s Siberia with his customary anecdotal musings, piercing insights and brilliant wit.

Director
Chris Marker, Medvedkin

Production
Chicago Filmmakers

Tags: Film, Old Europe, 1995