The Cat in the Bag

The Cat in the Bag

83 mins | Comedy | Sept. 17, 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.

The Cat in the Bag

83 mins | Comedy | Sept. 17, 1979

The Cat in the Bag
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.
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Кот в мешке
Directors Georgi Shchukin
Writers Georgi Shchukin, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy

Cast

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

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

Aleksandr Lebedev

as collective accountant

Viktor Markin

as seller at the kiosk

Evgeniya Melnikova

as doctor

Yuriy 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)