Happiness Must Be Protected (1958)
Returning to his native village at the end of his military service, Victor (Yuri Sarantsev) brought his bride into the house - and soon they got married. Victor works on the collective farm with great enthusiasm, he is appointed a foreman, but the happiness of old Danila, Victor’s father, is overshadowed by dirty gossip - as if Victor’s father is not he, but Shandybovich, whose unseemly deeds were recently exposed by Victor.
Director:
Iosif Shulman
Writer:
Andrey Makayonok
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Konstantin Skorobogatov as Danila |
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Yuriy Sarantsev as Viktor |
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Danuta Stolyarskaya as Larisa |
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Vitali Politseymako as Shandybovich |
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Nina Doroshina as Olga |
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Boris Kudryavtsev as Ivan Mikhaylovich |
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Vladimir Ivanov as Vasya |
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Dzidra Ritenberga as Katya |
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Stepan Khatskevich as Frol |
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Aleksey Baranovskiy as Nikita |
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Stefaniya Stanyuta as |
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Kuzma Kulakov as |
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Igor Dobrolyubov as |
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Aleksandra Denisova as |
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Aleksandra Klimova as |
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Nina Geyts as |
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Galina Makarova as |
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Rostislav Yankovsky as (uncredited) |
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Lidiya Rzhetskaya as (uncredited) |
| Directing | Iosif Shulman | Director |
| Camera | Georgiy Vdovenkov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yuriy Bulychyov | Production Design |
| Writing | Aleksey Kulakovsky | Novel |
| Writing | Andrey Makayonok | Screenplay |
| Directing | Saveliy Braude | Second Unit Director |
| Editing | M. Bodrennikova | Editor |
| Sound | Dmitri Lukas | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Vasily Dyomkin | Sound Recordist |
| Writing | Maksim Luzhanin | Lyricist |
| Sound | Vladimir Vasilyev | Conductor |
| Production | S. Rabinov | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | B. Yegorov | Makeup Artist |