Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

1972Directed by Boris Babochkin, Olga Koznova

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Released: April 6, 1972

About Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

Drama
TV Movie

Synopsis

The domineering old woman Mavra Tarasovna, the mother of the Moscow merchant Amos Panfilovich Baraboshev, is looking for a general to marry her granddaughter Poliksena. However, the girl loves Platon Zybkin, a clerk who is honest but poor and owes the master two hundred rubles. Platon faces imprisonment for debt. With the help of Poliksena’s nurse, who decides to aid the lovers, a new watchman appears in the house—former non-commissioned officer Sila Yerofeyevich Groznov, who was once Mavra Tarasovna's lover.

Directors: Boris Babochkin
Olga Koznova
Writer: Alexander Ostrovsky
Original title: Правда - хорошо, а счастье - лучше

Principal cast

In billing order

Nikolai Ryzhov
Yelena Shatrova
Liliya Yudina
Sofya Fadeyeva
Vladimir Kolosov
Pyotr Konstantinov

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