For Happiness
About For Happiness
Zoya Verenskaya, a rich widow, has kept lawyer Dmitry waiting for ten years because she will not marry while her daughter Lee is ill and may lose her sight. She takes Lee to a resort in the Crimea. There she learns that Lee loves Dmitry too, and the three of them come apart.
Cast & crew
More about For Happiness
Yevgeny Bauer directed it. N. Dennitsyna wrote it and plays Lee's nurse. Boris Zavelev photographed it. Lev Kuleshov designed the production and plays the painter Enrico. Khanzhonkov released it on 3 September 1917. It runs 41 minutes.
Themes
Look
Boris Zavelev photographed the rooms and the Crimea resort.
Preservation
A print survives. One copy runs 41 minutes 17 seconds.
Notes
- Lidiya Koreneva plays Zoya. Nikolai Radin plays Dmitry. Tasya Borman plays Lee.
- Emma Bauer, the director's wife, is billed as the girl.
- Aleksandr Kheruvimov plays the doctor.
- A viewing copy runs 41 minutes 17 seconds.
Scenes
- Zoya refuses Dmitry again because Lee may go blind.
- On the Crimea trip, Lee's feeling for Dmitry comes out.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (За счастьем 1917.webm)
