Carnival Night
29/12/1956
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.
Movie Information
Igor Ilyinsky
as Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Lena Krylova
Yuri Belov
as Grisha Koltsov
Andrei Tutyshkin
as Fyodor Petrovich Mironov
Olga Vlasova
as Adelaida Kuzminichna Romashkina
Tamara Nosova
as Tosya Burigina
Georgiy Kulikov
as Seryozha Usikov
Gennadi Yudin
as jazz band Conductor
Vladimir Zeldin
as Nikolayev
Boris Petker
as Nikolay Sidorov
Sergei Filippov
as comrade Nekadilov
Valentina Shmeleva
as Vera
Olga Shmeleva
as Nadya
Evgeniya Shmeleva
as Lyuba
Boris Gusakov
as чечёточник-мексиканец
Yuriy Gusakov
as чечёточник-мексиканец
Tamara Sokolova
as dancer
Pyotr Pomazkov
as dancer
Valentin Bryleev
as Kostya
Aleksey Polevoy
as Eduard Nikiforov
Semyon Khmelnitskiy
as Vasyli Telegin
Elizaveta Pokrovskaya
as Yelizaveta Telegina
Antonina Smetankina
as Dusya
Vladimir Pitsek
as floor polisher
Feliks Yavorsky
as head of the choir circle / "Vasily Benediktovich Sviristinsky-Shmygaylo" / conductor of the "pensioners" orchestra
Anatoliy Kirillov
as amateur participant
Vladimir Vasilyev
as
Anatoli Chebotaryov
as гость
Afanasi Belov
as Bartender
