{{Infobox television | image = Brief Guide To A Happy Life.jpg | caption = | genre = Drama | creator = | director = Valeriya Gai Germanika | starring = {{plainlist| *Svetlana Khodchenkova *Ksenia Gromova *Alisa Khazanova }} | writer = Anna Kozlova | composer = | cinematography = Vsevolod Kaptur | language = Russian | country = Russia | location = | producer = Konstantin Ernst<br>Denis Evstigeniev | company = | runtime = | network = Channel One Russia | first_aired = {{start date|2012|3|12|df=y}} | last_aired = {{end date|2012|4|5|df=y}} | num_series = 1 | num_episodes = 16 | list_episodes = }} '''''Brief Guide To A Happy Life''''' ({{langx|ru|Краткий курс счастливой жизни|Kratkiy kurs schastlivoi zhizni}}) is a Russian sixteen serial television series, filmed by director Valeriya Gai Germanika and with a scenario by Anna Kozlova.<ref name="Кастинг в сериал">[http://www.izvestia.ru/news/518060 «С Германикой компромисс невозможен — ей нужно довериться полностью»] // Izvestiya</ref> It was aired on Channel One Russia from 12 March to 5 April 2012.
== Plot == The series tells the story of four young women working in the recruiting agency ''New recruit'' their families and relations with men.<ref>[http://kp.ru/daily/25850.2/2819649/ Германика не устроила на съемках ни одного скандала] // Komsomolskaya pravda</ref>
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<ref name="Кастинг в сериал"/> *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<ref>[http://www.telesem.ru/week/details-of-a-teleweek/6945-kratkij-kurs-schastlivoj-zhizni «Краткий курс счастливой жизни»] // Antenna</ref> * 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.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|2606188}} * [http://www.1tv.ru/happylife Страница сериала на сайте «Первого канала»] *''[https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/574907 Brief Guide To A Happy Life]'' at the KinoPoisk
Category:Russian-language television shows Category:2012 Russian television series debuts Category:2012 Russian television series endings Category:Russian drama television series Category:Channel One (Russia) original programming Category:Television shows set in Moscow Category:Erotic drama television series