Film
Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better
1972Directed by Boris Babochkin, Olga Koznova
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- Released
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
