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.

Cast (32)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

A

Andrei Petrov

farm chairman

Lyudmila Ivanova

Lykin's mother

Tatyana Khoroshevtseva

Katya the telephonist

L

Lidiya Ryumina

Alevtina's mother

Aleksandr Pashutin

head of the club

R

Rudolf Rudin

theater director

S

Sergei Klokov

Grishka

I

Ilya Terekhovsky

Mishka

Larisa Barabanova

collective farmer

Nina Beloborodova

collective farmer

A

Aleksandr Zimin

collective farmer

Valentina Ushakova

collective farmer

Muza Krepkogorskaya

Roza

Aleksandr Lebedev

collective accountant

Viktor Markin

seller at the kiosk

Yuri Potyomkin

collective farmer

Tatyana Ronami

collective farmer

Galina Sokolova

Guskova

Andrei Tulyev

Vasya Yermakov

Anna Frolovtseva

seller at the kiosk

Klavdiya Khabarova

Tyulkin's boss

Mikhail Kalinkin

collective farmer

Vladimir Kuznetsov

(uncredited)

Yevgeniya Melnikova

doctor

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