How to Become Happy

How to Become Happy (Как стать счастливым) is a 1986 Soviet comedy-science fiction film directed by Yuri Chulyukin.

Plot
1980 year. In the small town of Lesogorsk lives a modest teacher of physics. He invents a miracle device that can determine in a child the ability to a profession and the degree of talent. The inventor comes to Moscow, but everyone is skeptical about his device.

Ten years pass. The future is coming and, according to the predictions of the inventor, talents begin to appear one after another and all of them come from Lesogorsk: artists, sportsmen, scientists ... Gosha, a correspondent of a Moscow newspaper, who missed a sensation ten years ago, rushes with his son to seek the genius. However, it's too late, as the inventor has already died ...happy

Cast

 * Nikolai Karachentsov — Gosha
 * Marina Dyuzheva — Zoya, Gosha's wife
 * Lev Durov — old man-inventor
 * Vladimir Shevelkov — Slava
 * Yelena Valyushkina — Lida
 * Tatyana Pelttser — Lida's grandmother
 * Kirill Golovko-Sersky — Vovik, son of Gosha and Zoya
 * Victor Filippov — Uncle Borya
 * Semyon Farada — Kolobok
 * Ion Ungureanu — Director of the Brain Institute Dmitry Sergeevich
 * Lyudmila Chulyukina — Raechka
 * Vsevolod Shilovsky — editor-in-chief
 * Sergey Balabanov — Misha
 * Igor Yasulovich — speaker at the opening of the monument
 * Alexander Maslyakov — presenter of the contest
 * Vadim Aleksandrov — editorial officer of Bald
 * Vladimir Nosik — fellow of the Brain Institute
 * Nikolay Karnaukhov — watchman Stepanych
 * Ksenia Kozmina — Vivarium of the Institute of the Brain
 * Zoya Vasilkova — fellow of the Institute of the Brain
 * Zoya Isaeva — editorial employee
 * Rano Hamrayeva — fellow of the Institute of the Brain
 * Alexander Levshin — researcher of the Institute of the Brain