The Cat in the Bag

The Cat in the Bag (1979)


  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1979-09-17
  • User Rating: 3.3/10 from 3 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Language: Pусский
  • Production Company: Mosfilm
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
  • Director: Georgi Shchukin
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Summary

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.

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  • Boryslav Brondukov

    as Tyulkin

  • Stanislav Sadalskiy

    as Ruslanych

  • Viktor Ilichyov

    as Savchuk

  • Oleg Anofriev

    as Panin

  • Tatyana Novitskaya

    as Alevtina

  • Ivan Ryzhov

    as grandfather Timonya

  • Mariya Skvortsova

    as grandmother Lena

  • Svetlana Kharitonova

    as Gromova

  • Andrei Petrov

    as farm chairman

  • Lyudmila Ivanova

    as Lykin's mother

  • Tatyana Khoroshevtseva

    as Katya the telephonist

  • Lidiya Ryumina

    as Alevtina's mother

  • Aleksandr Pashutin

    as head of the club

  • Rudolf Rudin

    as theater director

  • Sergei Klokov

    as Grishka

  • Ilya Terekhovsky

    as Mishka

  • Larisa Barabanova

    as collective farmer

  • Nina Beloborodova

    as collective farmer

  • Aleksandr Zimin

    as collective farmer

  • Valentina Ushakova

    as collective farmer

  • Muza Krepkogorskaya

    as Roza

  • Aleksandr Lebedev

    as collective accountant

  • Viktor Markin

    as seller at the kiosk

  • Yuriy Potyomkin

    as collective farmer

  • Tatyana Ronami

    as collective farmer

  • Galina Sokolova

    as Guskova

  • Andrei Tulyev

    as Vasya Yermakov

  • Anna Frolovtseva

    as seller at the kiosk

  • Klavdiya Khabarova

    as Tyulkin's boss

  • Mikhail Kalinkin

    as collective farmer

  • Vladimir Kuznetsov

    as (uncredited)

  • Yevgeniya Melnikova

    as doctor
Directing Georgi Shchukin Director
Writing Georgi Shchukin Writer
Writing Aleksandr Borodyanskiy Writer
Camera Georgiy Kupriyanov Director of Photography
Art Vasily Shcherbak Production Design
Sound Larisa Kritskaya Original Music Composer
Sound Liliya Terekhovskaya Sound
Editing Ye. Andreyeva Editor

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