Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe

Interviews with naval and military cadets in Russia explores such topics as male-bonding, hazing, patriotism, brotherhood and alcohol abuse.

The director's first film begins in a Russian suana where very buff naked cadets fan birch branches on each other to stimulate their circulation (and ours as well). The story is of a seduction of a Russian Soldier that may or may not go well - but it certainly points the way for Steve Kokker's later film Komrades.