Crazy Money

Crazy Money

82 mins | Comedy | Nov. 19, 1981

Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova. Wanting to meet her, he asks his new acquaintance Telyatev to introduce himself as Cheboksarov. Telyatev and his friend Glumov decide to play the mother of Lidiya, Nadezhda Antonovna, who wants to get a rich son-in-law, and recommend Vasilkov as a gold mining millionaire from Siberia. Savva Gennadievich begins to visit the Cheboksarovs house, but his provincialism and Lydiya’s intention to create a brilliant party due to their beauty prevent them from finding a common language.

Crazy Money

82 mins | Comedy | Nov. 19, 1981

Crazy Money
Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova. Wanting to meet her, he asks his new acquaintance Telyatev to introduce himself as Cheboksarov. Telyatev and his friend Glumov decide to play the mother of Lidiya, Nadezhda Antonovna, who wants to get a rich son-in-law, and recommend Vasilkov as a gold mining millionaire from Siberia. Savva Gennadievich begins to visit the Cheboksarovs house, but his provincialism and Lydiya’s intention to create a brilliant party due to their beauty prevent them from finding a common language.
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Бешеные деньги
Directors Yevgeni Matveyev
Writers Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Yevgeni Matveyev

Cast

Lyudmila Nilskaya

as Lidiya

Yelena Solovey

as Nadezhda Antonovna

Aleksandr Mikhaylov

as Vasilkov

Yuriy Yakovlev

as Telyatev

Pavel Kadochnikov

as Kuchumov

Vadim Spiridonov

as Glumov

Leonid Kuravlyov

as Vasiliy

Aleksandr Pyatkov

as Andrei