Happy Go Lucky
Directed byVasily Shukshin
Written byVasily Shukshin
Produced byYakov Zvonkov
StarringVasily Shukshin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Vsevolod Sanayev
Georgi Burkov
Zinovy Gerdt
CinematographyAnatoly Zabolotsky
Music byPavel Chekalov
Release date
  • 2 April 1972 (1972-04-02)
Running time
90 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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

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

  1. Letterboxd • Your life in film
  2. Pavel Lyssakov, Stephen M Norris, The City in Russian Culture Routledge, 2018, ISBN 9781351388023, 33 p.
  3. На Алтае завершились Шукшинские дни
  4. Биография Леонида Вячеславовича Куравлёва


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