Carnival Night

Carnival Night (1956)

MusicComedyRomance

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.

Director: Eldar Ryazanov
Writers: Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov.

Casts

	Igor Ilyinsky as Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
	Lyudmila Gurchenko as Lena Krylova
	Yuri Belov as Grisha Koltsov
	Georgiy Kulikov as Usikov
	Sergei Filippov as comrade Nekadilov
	Olga Vlasova as Romashkina
	Andrei Tutyshkin as accountant
	Tamara Nosova as Tosya
	Gennadi Yudin as conductor
	Vladimir Zeldin as Nikolaev, clown Tip
	Boris Petker as Nikolay Sidorov, сlown Top
	Valentin Bryleev as
	Aleksey Polevoy as
	Semyon Khmelnitskiy as
	Antonina Smetankina as
	Vladimir Pitsek as
	Feliks Yavorsky as
	Anatoliy Kirillov as
	Elizaveta Pokrovskaya as
	Boris Gusakov as dancer
	Yuriy Gusakov as dancer
	Valentina Shmeleva as Vera
	Olga Shmeleva as Nadya
	Evgeniya Shmeleva as Lyuba
	Tamara Sokolova as dancer
	Pyotr Pomazkov as dancer
	Valentin Abramov as (uncredited)
	Arutyun Akopyan as (uncredited)
	Yuri Afanasiev as (uncredited)
	Vitaly Balagurov as (uncredited)
	Igor Belsky as (uncredited)
	Boris Belyakov as (uncredited)
	Inga Budkevich as (uncredited)
	Natalia Valandina as (uncredited)
	Vladimir Vasilyev as (uncredited)
	Viktor Geraskin as (uncredited)
	Vladimir Gusev as (uncredited)
	Zoya Zelinskaya as (uncredited)
	Yuriy Kireev as (uncredited)
	Stanislav Korenev as (uncredited)
	Ivan Kosykh as (uncredited)
	Mariya Kravchunovskaya as (uncredited)
	Lev Lobov as (uncredited)
	Yevgeniya Lyzhina as (uncredited)
	Valentin Maklashin as (uncredited)
	Boris Matveev as (uncredited)
	Inna Myasnikova as (uncredited)
	Svetlana Nemolyaeva as (uncredited)
	Andrey Nikolaev as (uncredited)
	Viktor Novoselsky as (uncredited)
	Ella Olkhovskaya as (uncredited)
	Vera Petrova as (uncredited)
	Eleonora Prokhnitskaya as (uncredited)
	Roza Romanovskaya as (uncredited)
	Yury Saulsky as (uncredited)
	Vladimir Seleznyov as (uncredited)
	Vladimir Smirnov as (uncredited)
	Nadezhda Sementsova as (uncredited)
	Nikolay Sibeikin as (uncredited)
	Inna Ulyanova as (uncredited)
	Valentina Ushakova as (uncredited)
	Zoya Kharabadze as (uncredited)
	Anatoli Chebotaryov as (uncredited)
	Larisa Shepitko as (uncredited)
	Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy as (uncredited)

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