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Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

Original Title: Правда - хорошо, а счастье - лучше

19720m
DramaTV Movie

Status

Released

Release

1972

Runtime

0m

Storyline

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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
Not available
Apr 6, 1972
Director
Boris Babochkin
Boris Babochkin
Olga Koznova
Olga Koznova
Production
Central Television USSR
Central Television USSR
Production Countries
Soviet Union

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