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Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

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

    Nikolai Ryzhov

  • Yelena Shatrova

    Yelena Shatrova

  • Liliya Yudina

    Liliya Yudina

  • Sofya Fadeyeva

    Sofya Fadeyeva

  • Vladimir Kolosov

    Vladimir Kolosov

  • Pyotr Konstantinov

    Pyotr Konstantinov

  • Varvara Obukhova

    Varvara Obukhova

  • Valeri Babyatinsky

    Valeri Babyatinsky

  • Boris Babochkin

    Boris Babochkin

Overview

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.

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