Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better (1972)

DramaTV Movie

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.

Casts

	Nikolai Ryzhov as
	Yelena Shatrova as
	Liliya Yudina as
	Sofya Fadeyeva as
	Vladimir Kolosov as
	Pyotr Konstantinov as
	Varvara Obukhova as
	Valeri Babyatinsky as
	Boris Babochkin as

Crew