The Cat in the Bag

(1979)

★ 5 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1979

Runtime: 88 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Георгий Щукин

Cast: Борислав Брондуков, Станислав Садальский, Виктор Ильичёв, Олег Анофриев, Татьяна Новицкая, Иван Рыжов, Мария Скворцова, Светлана Харитонова, Андрей Петров, Людмила Иванова

Plot

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.