Happy Go Lucky (, 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.Letterboxd • Your life in film 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.Pavel Lyssakov, Stephen M Norris, The City in Russian Culture Routledge, 2018, , 33 p. 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.На Алтае завершились Шукшинские дни The role of Ivan Sergeevich Rastorguev was proposed to Leonid Kuravlyov, but he refused it.Биография Леонида Вячеславовича Куравлёва References

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