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
Lyuba
Irina Proshina
Unknown
Evgeniya Turkina
Unknown
Mariya Kuzmina
Unknown
Rano Kubaeva
Zulfiya
Lyubov Starkova
Unknown
Oksana Pototskaya
Unknown
Raisa Sazonova
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Lyudmila Kuznetsova
Unknown
Oleg Ukhov
Unknown
Oleg Vasilkov
Unknown
Murad Ibragimbekov
Unknown
Natalya Pyankova
Unknown
Gennadi Sidorov
Unknown
Ravshana Kurkova
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Svetlana Shershneva
Unknown
Crew
Larisa Sadilova
Director, Screenplay
Natalya Sazhina
Editor
Elena Danshina
Editor
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
Maksim Mosin
Additional Director of Photography
Andrey Kapranov
Additional Director of Photography
Gennadi Sidorov
Producer
Eduard Galkin
Production Design
Irina Tolmachyova
Makeup Artist
Nikolai Mosin
Sound Director
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Original Music Composer
Georgy Sviridov
Original Music Composer
