The Cat in the Bag

3.3
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 83 min
  • Premiere: 1979. September 17.

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.

Discover

Ivan Ryzhov

grandfather Timonya

Mariya Skvortsova

grandmother Lena

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

Larisa Barabanova

collective farmer

Nina Beloborodova

collective farmer

Aleksandr Zimin

collective farmer

Valentina Ushakova

collective farmer

Aleksandr Lebedev

collective accountant

Viktor Markin

seller at the kiosk

Yuriy Potyomkin

collective farmer

Tatyana Ronami

collective farmer

Andrei Tulyev

Vasya Yermakov

Anna Frolovtseva

seller at the kiosk

Klavdiya Khabarova

Tyulkin's boss

Mikhail Kalinkin

collective farmer

Vladimir Kuznetsov

(uncredited)

Art

Vasily Shcherbak

Production Design

Camera

Georgiy Kupriyanov

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Sound

Larisa Kritskaya

Original Music Composer

Art

Vasily Shcherbak

Production Design

Camera

Georgiy Kupriyanov

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Sound

Larisa Kritskaya

Original Music Composer