Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

(1972)

Genres: Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1972

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Борис Бабочкин, Ольга Кознова

Cast: Николай Рыжов, Елена Шатрова, Лилия Юдина, Софья Фадеева, Владимир Колосов, Пётр Константинов, Варвара Обухова, Валерий Бабятинский, Борис Бабочкин

Plot

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.