Happy Go Lucky (1972 film)
1972 Soviet Union film
- 2 April 1972 (1972-04-02)
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Happy Go Lucky (Russian: Печки-лавочки, romanized: Pechki-lavochki, literally Stoves and benches — ironic regional saying that may mean Various subjects for casual conversations or/and Distracting lies depending on the certain context) is a 1972 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasily Shukshin.[1]
Plot
Story about a travel of married couple from a far-off village in the Altai Mountains to the southern sea. For the first time in life spouses go to the holiday according to the trade-union committee permit moreover in a separate coupe. Road adventures and a rhythm of new life carry them away, but among beauty of the southern nature they can't forget about native places and close people who wait for their return.[2]
Cast
- Vasily Shukshin as Ivan Rastorguyev
- Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Nyura Rastorgueva
- Vsevolod Sanayev as Professor
- Georgi Burkov as Viktor, fake сonstructor, thief
- Zinovy Gerdt as 2nd professor
- Ivan Ryzhov as Train steward
- Stanislav Lyubshin as Ivan Stepanov
- Vadim Zakharchenko as Business traveller
Facts
- A significant part of the shooting took place in the village of Shulgin Log on the bank of the Katun River. All the shooting took four months.[3]
- The role of Ivan Sergeevich Rastorguev was proposed to Leonid Kuravlyov, but he refused it.[4]
References
External links
- Happy Go Lucky at IMDb
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Films by Vasily Shukshin
- There Is Such a Lad (1964)
- Your Son and Brother (1965)
- Strange People (1969)
- Happy Go Lucky (1972)
- The Red Snowball Tree (1973)
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