ABSTRACT
The director Alexandrov and the whole creative collective for The Happy Guys had to pave the way for this genre not merely because we had no comedy films but because the genre antecedents of The Happy Guys, our early comedies (even the best of them: Two Friends, a Model and a Girlfriend, Don Diego and Pelagia, etc.) were heavyweight in form and lightweight in content. The audience was not amused by these comedies even though, given their time and level,
they were not bad. Trite morality, pretentiousness and schematism weighed heavily on our comedies ...
