Happiness Must Be Protected

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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.

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Production Details

Languages: Russian

Director: Iosif Shulman

Starring Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Sarantsev, Danuta Stolyarskaya, Vitali Politseymako, Nina Doroshina, Boris Kudryavtsev

Cast

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

Galina Makarova

Rostislav Yankovsky

(uncredited)

Lidiya Rzhetskaya

(uncredited)

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