Film

Happiness Must Be Protected

1958 · 1h 24m · Drama

IMDb

7.0

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.

Konstantin Skorobogatov

Danila

Yuriy Sarantsev

Viktor

Danuta Stolyarskaya

Larisa

Vitali Politseymako

Shandybovich

Nina Doroshina

Olga

Boris Kudryavtsev

Ivan Mikhaylovich

Vladimir Ivanov

Vasya

Dzidra Ritenberga

Katya

Stepan Khatskevich

Frol

Aleksey Baranovskiy

Nikita

Stefaniya Stanyuta

Kuzma Kulakov

Igor Dobrolyubov

Aleksandra Denisova

Aleksandra Klimova

Nina Geyts

• Iosif ShulmanDirector
• Andrey MakayonokScreenplay
• Aleksey KulakovskyNovel
• S. RabinovExecutive Producer
• Georgiy VdovenkovDirector of Photography
• Dmitri LukasOriginal Music Composer
• M. BodrennikovaEditor

Release date

April 9, 1958

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Drama