Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better

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Samenvatting in het Engels

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.

Cast

N Nikolai Ryzhov Y Yelena Shatrova L Liliya Yudina S Sofya Fadeyeva V Vladimir Kolosov P Pyotr Konstantinov V Varvara Obukhova V Valeri Babyatinsky B Boris Babochkin