''How to Become Happy'' (russian: Как стать счастливым, Kak stat schastlivym) is a 1986 Soviet

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

- science fiction film directed by

Yuri Chulyukin Yuri Stepanovich Chulyukin (russian: Юрий Степанович Чулюкин; 9 November 1929 — 7 March 1987) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor and songwriter best known for comedy movies. He became a People's Artist of the RS ...

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 Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov (russian: Николай Петрович Караченцов, 27 October 1944 – 26 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor of Lenkom Theatre. Karachentsov's popularity peaked in the late 197 ...

— Gosha * Marina Dyuzheva — Zoya, Gosha's wife *

Lev Durov Lev Konstantinovich Durov ( rus, Лев Константинович Дуров, p=ˈlʲef kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ ˈdurəf; 23 December 1931 – 20 August 2015) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor who appeared in more than 200 ...

— 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 Vsevolod Nikolaevich Shilovsky (russian: Все́волод Никола́евич Шило́вский; born June 3, 1938, Moscow ) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986). He was awarded ...

— editor-in-chief *Sergey Balabanov — Misha *

Igor Yasulovich Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ясулович; born 24 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfe ...

— speaker at the opening of the monument *

Alexander Maslyakov Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov (russian: Александр Васильевич Масляков) (born November 24, 1941 in Sverdlovsk, USSR) is a prominent Soviet and Russian television game show host. He is a well known, iconic figure throu ...

— 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

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{{IMDb title, tt0264747 Soviet musical comedy films 1980s science fiction comedy films Russian science fiction comedy films Russian musical comedy films Mosfilm films 1986 comedy films 1986 films 1980s musical comedy films