Carnival Night

The story

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

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Carnival Night Collection

In release order

This film

Carnival Night

1956

Carnival Night 2

1996

Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later

2007

Cast

I Igor IlyinskySerafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov L Lyudmila GurchenkoLena Krylova Y Yuri BelovGrisha Koltsov G Georgiy KulikovUsikov S Sergei Filippovcomrade Nekadilov O Olga VlasovaRomashkina A Andrei Tutyshkinaccountant T Tamara NosovaTosya G Gennadi Yudinconductor V Vladimir ZeldinNikolaev, clown Tip B Boris PetkerNikolay Sidorov, сlown Top V Valentin Bryleev

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A Aleksey Polevoy S Semyon Khmelnitskiy A Antonina Smetankina V Vladimir Pitsek F Feliks Yavorsky A Anatoliy Kirillov E Elizaveta Pokrovskaya B Boris Gusakovdancer Y Yuriy Gusakovdancer V Valentina ShmelevaVera O Olga ShmelevaNadya E Evgeniya ShmelevaLyuba T Tamara Sokolovadancer P Pyotr Pomazkovdancer V Valentin Abramov(uncredited) A Arutyun Akopyan(uncredited) Y Yuri Afanasiev(uncredited) V Vitaly Balagurov(uncredited) I Igor Belsky(uncredited) B Boris Belyakov(uncredited) I Inga Budkevich(uncredited) N Natalia Valandina(uncredited) V Vladimir Vasilyev(uncredited) V Viktor Geraskin(uncredited) V Vladimir Gusev(uncredited) Z Zoya Zelinskaya(uncredited) Y Yuriy Kireev(uncredited) S Stanislav Korenev(uncredited) I Ivan Kosykh(uncredited) M Mariya Kravchunovskaya(uncredited) L Lev Lobov(uncredited) Y Yevgeniya Lyzhina(uncredited) V Valentin Maklashin(uncredited) B Boris Matveev(uncredited) I Inna Myasnikova(uncredited) S Svetlana Nemolyaeva(uncredited) A Andrey Nikolaev(uncredited) V Viktor Novoselsky(uncredited) E Ella Olkhovskaya(uncredited) V Vera Petrova(uncredited) E Eleonora Prokhnitskaya(uncredited) R Roza Romanovskaya(uncredited) Y Yury Saulsky(uncredited) V Vladimir Seleznyov(uncredited) V Vladimir Smirnov(uncredited) N Nadezhda Sementsova(uncredited) N Nikolay Sibeikin(uncredited) I Inna Ulyanova(uncredited) V Valentina Ushakova(uncredited) Z Zoya Kharabadze(uncredited) A Anatoli Chebotaryov(uncredited) L Larisa Shepitko(uncredited) V Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy(uncredited)