Happy Go Lucky (Russian: Печки-лавочки, romanized: Pechki-lavochki, 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

• 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

• 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.^[3]
• The role of Ivan Sergeevich Rastorguev was proposed to Leonid Kuravlyov, but he refused it.^[4]

• Happy Go Lucky at IMDb