The Piggy Bank (1980)
A musical screen comedy based on the French play La Cagnotte (The Piggy Bank in English) by Eugène Marin Labiche. A group of provincial Bourgeois decide to spend savings they accumulated for a year of playing cards together on a memorable deed. After humorous strategizing and alliance forming, Leonida, the unmarried sister and Blanche, the engaged daughter, of Monsieur Champbourcy, entice the group to spend the money on what they imagine a luxurious journey to a capital city. A very memorable event indeed it was.
Directors: Mikhail Grigoryev, Volodymyr Saveliev.
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Mikhail Svetin as Шамбурси |
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Lyudmila Arinina as Леонида |
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Roman Tkachuk as Корденбуа |
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Grigori Abrikosov as Колладан |
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Vera Novikova as |
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Yuriy Nifontov as Феликс |
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Anatoliy Romashin as Кокарель |
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Igor Dmitriev as Бешю |
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Ernst Romanov as Бенжамен |
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Zinoviy Gerdt as |
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Ksenia Nikolaeva as дочь графини Кордебуа |
| Camera | Feliks Hilevych | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Mikhail Grigoryev | Director |
| Writing | Mikhail Grigoryev | Writer |
| Art | Victor Zhylko | Production Design |
| Writing | Eugène Labiche | Writer |
| Editing | Anna Brunchugin | Editor |
| Sound | Tikhon Khrennikov | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Volodymyr Saveliev | Director |
| Art | Larysa Zhylko | Production Design |