Happiness Must Be Protected

Happiness Must Be Protected

1958 · 84 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Iosif Shulman · Written by Andrey Makayonok

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