Happy Go Lucky (1972 film)

Happy Go Lucky (Печки-лавочки, 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.

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.

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.
 * The role of Ivan Sergeevich Rastorguev was proposed to Leonid Kuravlyov, but he refused it.