HAPPINESS MUST BE PROTECTED (1958)

Not Rated
Happiness Must Be Protected
Drama
April 9, 1958
Russian
1h 24m
Soviet Union
Belarusfilm
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.
Cast & Characters
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
Aleksey Baranovskiy
Nikita
Rostislav Yankovsky
(uncredited)
Lidiya Rzhetskaya
(uncredited)
Crew
Iosif Shulman
Director
Aleksey Kulakovsky
Novel
Andrey Makayonok
Screenplay
Dmitri Lukas
Original Music Composer
Georgiy Vdovenkov
Director of Photography
S. Rabinov
Executive Producer