The Cat in the Bag

The story

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

B Boryslav BrondukovTyulkin S Stanislav SadalskiyRuslanych V Viktor IlichyovSavchuk O Oleg AnofrievPanin T Tatyana NovitskayaAlevtina I Ivan Ryzhovgrandfather Timonya M Mariya Skvortsovagrandmother Lena S Svetlana KharitonovaGromova A Andrei Petrovfarm chairman L Lyudmila IvanovaLykin's mother T Tatyana KhoroshevtsevaKatya the telephonist L Lidiya RyuminaAlevtina's mother

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A Aleksandr Pashutinhead of the club R Rudolf Rudintheater director S Sergei KlokovGrishka I Ilya TerekhovskyMishka L Larisa Barabanovacollective farmer N Nina Beloborodovacollective farmer A Aleksandr Zimincollective farmer V Valentina Ushakovacollective farmer M Muza KrepkogorskayaRoza A Aleksandr Lebedevcollective accountant V Viktor Markinseller at the kiosk Y Yuri Potyomkincollective farmer T Tatyana Ronamicollective farmer G Galina SokolovaGuskova A Andrei TulyevVasya Yermakov A Anna Frolovtsevaseller at the kiosk K Klavdiya KhabarovaTyulkin's boss M Mikhail Kalinkincollective farmer V Vladimir Kuznetsov(uncredited) Y Yevgeniya Melnikovadoctor