
Song of Happiness 1934
Overview
A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Director: Mark Donskoy
Cast
Mikhail Viktorov
Кавырля Сырлаев/ Миша Эшпай

Vladimir Gardin
Карл Францевич Виатачек

Yanina Zheymo
Анук

Boris Tenin
Горох / Цыбуля

Boris Chirkov
Head of the political education department

Fyodor Nikitin
Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy
I. Moskvin

Evgeniy Velikhov

Leonid Kmit
Gryaznov

Nikolai Michurin
Ivan Nikitich Lebedev