Brief Guide To A Happy Life

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.^[1] It was aired on Channel One Russia from 12 March to 5 April 2012.

Brief Guide To A Happy Life
Genre	Drama
Written by	Anna Kozlova
Directed by	Valeriya Gai Germanika
Starring	Svetlana Khodchenkova Ksenia Gromova Alisa Khazanova
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Producers	Konstantin Ernst Denis Evstigeniev
Cinematography	Vsevolod Kaptur
Original release
Network	Channel One Russia
Release	12 March (2012-03-12) – 5 April 2012 (2012-04-05)

Plot

The series tells the story of four young women working in the recruiting agency New recruit their families and relations with men.^[2]

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^[1]
• 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^[3]
• 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.