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The Theory of Happiness

  • 20142014
  • 1h 22m
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Tamara Kostiuk in The Theory of Happiness (2014)
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Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia... Read allDeep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?
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    • Tamara Kostiuk
    • Sasha Kuropatkina
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    Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?
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      • Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, an exiled Russian commune is developing its own "Theory of Happiness." Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia inevitably turn into a veritable nightmare?
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      • April 2014 (Canada)
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      • Kharkov, Ukraine
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