One's Own Happiness

Overview

Alexander Pavlovich Reznikov is short of two hundred rubles (in the 1970s, about one and a half months’ salary for an office worker) to pay for the travel vouchers. His neighbor, a moonlighting contractor named Yura, offers Reznikov a way to earn the money in a single day. To do this, Alexander Palych must be present at the demolition of an old wooden house in the role of a foreman, while Yura will bring in students for the job. He will pay them ten rubles each, while they themselves will receive two hundred and fifty apiece. Reznikov agrees.

Cast

Anatoliy Pustokhin

Reznikov

Yuriy Shlykov

Yura

Georgi Yepifantsev

husband of Reznikov's ex-wife

N/A

Ludmila Zverkhovskaya

Reznikov's ex-wife

N/A

Alla Kashtanova

Olga

Sergey Kolesnikov

Kolesnikov

Kseniya Minina

secretary at the publishing house

Vladimir Troshin

Vladimir Konstantinovich

N/A

F. Bodnar

Bodnar

N/A

I. Galkin

Galkin

N/A

Mikhail Dranovskiy

Reznikov's friend

Aleksei Kolesnik

sabbath student