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The Time of the Happy

2026 · 1 season

A slow, earnest family chronicle that traces decades of social change through one household's quiet struggles and shifting fortunes.

Created by
Ilya Silaev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Olga Lerman, Vadim Sosnin
Overview
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.

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Created by
Ilya Silaev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Olga Lerman, Vadim Sosnin
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • class
  • identity
  • survival
  • parenthood
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Ilya Silaev
Written by
Vasily Smolin, Tatyana Goncharova, Nzhde Ayrapetyan
Starring
Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Olga Lerman, Vadim Sosnin, Evgeniya Leonova, Katerina Reshnova, Maria Gerasimova, Andrey Galchenko, Andrey Sarychev
Music
Anton Zakharov
Cinematography
Egor Vetohin
Length
1 seasons, 8 episodes
Network
START, Okko
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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