Brief Guide To A Happy Life (Russian: Краткий курс счастливой жизни, romanized: Kratkiy kurs schastlivoi zhizni) is a Russian sixteen serial television series, filmed by director Valeriya Gai Germanika and with a scenario by Anna Kozlova. It was aired on Channel One Russia from 12 March to 5 April 2012.
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Plot
The series tells the story of four young women working in the recruiting agency New recruit their families and relations with men.
Sasha is lonely and single. She is divorced, lives with her young son, mother and grandmother. When she meets Pyotr, who would later become her boss and lover, a new period begins in my life.
Not everything is perfect with her new colleagues either. The secretary Anya is busy searching for her second half. Lyuba is deciding how to deal with the fact that she is not able to have children, and Katya is mired in a family home which she can no longer tolerate.
Cast
Svetlana Khodchenkova as Sasha
Ksenia Gromova as Katya
Alisa Khazanova as Lyuba
Anna Slyu as Anya
Kirill Safonov as Pyotr Alekseevich Shirokov
Alexey Barabash as Dima
Kirill Zhandarov as Sergey
Yekaterina Volkova as Polina
Alexandra Nazarova as Bella
Yola Sanko as Emma
Sergey Burunov as Timur
Igor Zolotovitsky as Alexander, lawyer
Alisa Priznyakova as Natasha
Roman Volobuev as Jura, a serial killer
Valery Barinov as Vladimir Ivanovich
Valeriya Gai Germanika as Ms. Fedora, clairvoyant
Valentin Smirnitsky as Ilya Ilych
Agniya Kuznetsova as girl
Irina Khakamada as Vera Rodinka, psychologist
Ksenia Sobchak as Nadya
Valeria Kudryavtseva as Svetlana
Tatyana Lyutaeva as Olga
Bianka as cameo
Soundtrack
In the series are performed by the composition of Eva Polna, Zveri, Yolka, Slava, Yulia Chicherina, NikitA, Linda, DJ Smash, Timati, Vintage, Noize MC, Auktyon, BoomBox, Bianka, Sergey Shnurov, Oskar Kuchera, Grigory Leps, Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii, Irina Bogushevskaya, Brainstorm and others.