Film

The Cat in the Bag

1979 · 1h 23m · Comedy

IMDb

5.4

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.

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

Andrei Petrov

farm chairman

Lyudmila Ivanova

Lykin's mother

Tatyana Khoroshevtseva

Katya the telephonist

Lidiya Ryumina

Alevtina's mother

Aleksandr Pashutin

head of the club

Rudolf Rudin

theater director

Sergei Klokov

Grishka

Ilya Terekhovsky

Mishka

• Georgi ShchukinDirector · Writer
• Aleksandr BorodyanskiyWriter
• Yevgenia NagornayaExecutive Producer
• Georgiy KupriyanovDirector of Photography
• Larisa KritskayaOriginal Music Composer
• Yevgeniya AndreyevaEditor

Release date

September 17, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Comedy