The Cat in the Bag

The Cat in the Bag (1979)

Comedy

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.

Director: Georgi Shchukin

Casts

	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
	Aleksandr Pashutin as head of the club
	Rudolf Rudin as theater director
	Sergei Klokov as Grishka
	Ilya Terekhovsky as Mishka
	Larisa Barabanova as collective farmer
	Nina Beloborodova as collective farmer
	Aleksandr Zimin as collective farmer
	Valentina Ushakova as collective farmer
	Muza Krepkogorskaya as Roza
	Aleksandr Lebedev as collective accountant
	Viktor Markin as seller at the kiosk
	Yuri Potyomkin as collective farmer
	Tatyana Ronami as collective farmer
	Galina Sokolova as Guskova
	Andrei Tulyev as Vasya Yermakov
	Anna Frolovtseva as seller at the kiosk
	Klavdiya Khabarova as Tyulkin's boss
	Mikhail Kalinkin as collective farmer
	Vladimir Kuznetsov as (uncredited)
	Yevgeniya Melnikova as doctor

Crew