The Cat in the Bag
Кот в мешке
Release: 1979-09-17
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 3.3
Comedy
Under the guise of "student construction team of graduate students" a brigade of "covenants" arrives to the collective farm, expecting to get one thousand rubles for the construction of the "fountainarium" that is not envisaged by the estimate. However, under the gun of a local photo correspondent and the close attention of the collective farmers, Ruslan Ruslanych, a student of evening school, drunkard Tyulkin, illuminator in the theater Savchuk and hiding from alimony Panin, in order not to give himself away, are forced to work diligently and to be rehabilitated.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Stanislav Sadalskiy
as Ruslanych
Viktor Ilichyov
as Savchuk
Andrei Petrov
as farm chairman
Rudolf Rudin
as theater director
Andrei Tulyev
as Vasya Yermakov
Boryslav Brondukov
as Tyulkin
Mariya Skvortsova
as grandmother Lena
Mikhail Kalinkin
as collective farmer
Tatyana Khoroshevtseva
as Katya the telephonist
Larisa Barabanova
as collective farmer
Valentina Ushakova
as collective farmer
Viktor Markin
as seller at the kiosk
Anna Frolovtseva
as seller at the kiosk
Ivan Ryzhov
as grandfather Timonya
Lyudmila Ivanova
as Lykin's mother
Aleksandr Pashutin
as head of the club
Muza Krepkogorskaya
as Roza
Svetlana Kharitonova
as Gromova
Yuriy Potyomkin
as collective farmer
Aleksandr Lebedev
as collective accountant
Tatyana Ronami
as collective farmer
Klavdiya Khabarova
as Tyulkin's boss
Vladimir Kuznetsov
as (uncredited)
Lidiya Ryumina
as Alevtina's mother
Nina Beloborodova
as collective farmer
Galina Sokolova
as Guskova
Yevgeniya Melnikova
as doctor
Oleg Anofriev
as Panin
