Happiness Must Be Protected
1958, Russian. Directed by Iosif Shulman.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Iosif ShulmanDirector
- Konstantin SkorobogatovDanila
- Yuriy SarantsevViktor
- Danuta StolyarskayaLarisa
- Vitali PolitseymakoShandybovich
- Nina DoroshinaOlga
- Boris KudryavtsevIvan Mikhaylovich
- Vladimir IvanovVasya
- Dzidra RitenbergaKatya
- Stepan KhatskevichFrol
- Aleksey BaranovskiyNikita
- Stefaniya StanyutaCast
- Kuzma KulakovCast
Details
- Released
- 9 April 1958
- Original title
- Счастье надо беречь
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Andrey Makayonok
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Happiness Must Be Protected runs 84 minutes (1h 24m).
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Happiness Must Be Protected isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 9 April 1958. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
What movies are like Happiness Must Be Protected?
If you liked Happiness Must Be Protected, try The Nest, That Evening Sun, Farming.
Who directed Happiness Must Be Protected?
Happiness Must Be Protected (1958) was directed by Iosif Shulman and stars Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Sarantsev, Danuta Stolyarskaya.