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The Time of the Happy
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tikhon Zhiznevsky
Иван Счастливый
8 eps
Olga Lerman
Марина Счастливая
8 eps
Vadim Sosnin
Иван Счастливый
8 eps
Evgeniya Leonova
Марина Счастливая
8 eps
Sergey Novosad
Миша (2012)
8 eps
Anna Zavtur
Инга (2012)
8 eps
Viktoriya Zabolotnaya
Раиса (1999)
8 eps
Vsevolod Volodin
Антон (2012)
8 eps
Катерина Решнова
Алла (2012)
8 eps
Andrey Galchenko
Максим (2012)
8 eps
Мария Становская
Варя
8 eps
Sofya Arzhanykh
Раиса (1984)
8 eps
Evgeny Kharitonov
Николай Архипов
8 eps
Ekaterina Voronina
Инга (2012)
8 eps
Tatyana Monakhova
регистратор
8 eps
Мария Герасимова
Алла Счастливая
8 eps
Андрей Сарычев
Макс Счастливый
8 eps
Vasilisa Nemtsova
Инга (1999)
8 eps
Melaniya Elistratova
Инга в детстве
8 eps
Елисей Бахарев
Слава
8 eps
Кирилл Горшков
8 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Time of the Happy actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Time of the Happy reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, Marina and Ivan Schastykh had triplets and began life in a separate apartment number 13. But the naive 1980s are being replaced by the hungry 1990s, and the mood in the family is no longer rosy. Ivan, once the youngest and most promising candidate of sciences at Moscow State University, is forced to become a tutor and a homemaker while Marina earns money on the market. And then 2012 comes — the energy of the new age.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Vitaly ShlyappoExecutive Producer
Where to watch
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