Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

Synopsis

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.

Top cast

Nikolai Ryzhov

Yelena Shatrova

Liliya Yudina

Sofya Fadeyeva

Vladimir Kolosov

Pyotr Konstantinov

Varvara Obukhova

Valeri Babyatinsky

Boris Babochkin