The Cat in the Bag (1979)

5.0/10 83 min Comedy

Overview

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.

Cast

Boryslav Brondukov

Tyulkin

Stanislav Sadalskiy

Ruslanych

Viktor Ilichyov

Savchuk

Oleg Anofriev

Panin

Tatyana Novitskaya

Alevtina

Ivan Ryzhov

grandfather Timonya

Mariya Skvortsova

grandmother Lena

Svetlana Kharitonova

Gromova

Lyudmila Ivanova

Lykin's mother

Tatyana Khoroshevtseva

Katya the telephonist

Aleksandr Pashutin

head of the club

Larisa Barabanova

collective farmer

Nina Beloborodova

collective farmer

Valentina Ushakova

collective farmer

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