Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better
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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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Nikolai Ryzhov
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Boris Babochkin Director · Olga Koznova Director Alexander Ostrovsky Author
First release April 6, 1972 · Produced in Russia · Original title Правда - хорошо, а счастье - лучше
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Central Television USSR
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Russia
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Original title
Правда - хорошо, а счастье - лучше
Original language
Russian
Release dates
Russia · April 6, 1972
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