Truth is Good, But Happiness is BetterMovie
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.
About Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better
Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better is a 1972 drama, tv movie movie directed by Boris Babochkin, Olga Koznova.
The production information lists production credits from Soviet Union, an original language code of RU.
The credited cast includes Nikolai Ryzhov, Yelena Shatrova, Liliya Yudina, Sofya Fadeyeva. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
