The Cat in the Bag (1979)
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.
- Released
- 1979-09-17
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Georgi Shchukin
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- 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