Until better times... "When all the bad is behind, only the good remains."
Alexander Chervinsky’s play “My Happiness...”, which was extremely popular in the eighties of the last century, is not forgotten even now. Thirty-five years ago, this play gave theaters the opportunity to tell about the past of the Soviet country in a new way, to see the people of the forties, their characters and relationships created by the era and distorted by it. Through the witty light dialogues, a clear construction shines through: the study of the historical shift of human types — there are those who leave irrevocably, and there is someone who will later be said, “Look who has come!” The outgoing nature is the most intelligent teacher Oscar Borisovich, “a man of the XIX century”, silently committing noble deeds.
The headmaster of the school, Lydia Ivanovna, is a harsh, honest, boundless believer in the justice of the existing system, but humanly sympathetic to Victoria and "saving" her - the daughter of the enemy of the people. Vika herself is a pioneer Madonna, “sparkling” on the solemn lineup like a star. These destined characters are confronted by Senečka, not because he is “bad,” mean, and mean, but because this type of personality will be defining in the era to come. At the historical moment about which Chervinsky writes, this type has not yet been fully determined, it is only emerging, it is being outlined. Victoria "guessing" Senechkin fate thanks to his hearty wisdom and, of course, with the help of a playwright looking at everything that happens from the future.
People of the post-war period for us today is an insoluble mystery. What's interesting? What attracts people living in the 21st century? Probably because they went through a monstrous meat grinder, first repression, and then a four-year war of total destruction. They passed, survived, and believed they could literally turn the world around. Hence Seneca’s inspired speech on future “peace diplomacy.” Hence the almost unrealistic image of Victoria in her kindness. She is an inexhaustible store of joy. She is an unkillable conviction and a desire to pass the baton of goodness and fire of her soul on. To live in order to preserve and give what is received at birth. People like Vika raised the country from the ruins, and in their children raised a love for it, and they sincerely considered themselves happy.
The romance of the postwar period is special. It's warm. It warms the soul. She is bright - makes you empathize with the main character performed by Angelica Nevolina. Her Vika is a nice, cheerful, kind girl, pitying everyone and everything, with radiant eyes, with an open, but at the same time, prickly sad smile, and with her dream of universal happiness, the so-called “idea”: “No matter what, we will be in the world!” She is charming and natural both as a slim, ringing pioneer and as a pregnant woman. Aimed at the continuation and preservation of the family, the heroine herself builds her own world. Because he sees neither the husband nor the father of his daughter. She feels sorry for him, because she sees a future in which she sees not herself next to the brilliant diplomat Chizhov at a reception in London.