Carnival Night

Eldar Ryazanov
1956-12-29


7
78 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Igor Ilyinsky Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov Unowned
Lyudmila Gurchenko Lena Krylova Unowned
Yuri Belov Grisha Koltsov Unowned
Andrei Tutyshkin Fyodor Petrovich Mironov Unowned
Olga Vlasova Adelaida Kuzminichna Romashkina Unowned
Tamara Nosova Tosya Burigina Unowned
Georgiy Kulikov Seryozha Usikov Unowned
Gennadi Yudin jazz band Conductor Unowned
Vladimir Zeldin Nikolayev Unowned
Boris Petker Nikolay Sidorov Unowned
Sergei Filippov comrade Nekadilov Unowned
Valentina Shmeleva Vera Unowned
Olga Shmeleva Nadya Unowned
Evgeniya Shmeleva Lyuba Unowned
Boris Gusakov чечёточник-мексиканец Unowned
Yuriy Gusakov чечёточник-мексиканец Unowned
Tamara Sokolova dancer Unowned
Pyotr Pomazkov dancer Unowned
Valentin Bryleev Kostya Unowned
Aleksey Polevoy Eduard Nikiforov Unowned
Semyon Khmelnitskiy Vasyli Telegin Unowned
Elizaveta Pokrovskaya Yelizaveta Telegina Unowned
Antonina Smetankina Dusya Unowned
Vladimir Pitsek floor polisher Unowned
Feliks Yavorsky head of the choir circle / "Vasily Benediktovich Sviristinsky-Shmygaylo" / conductor of the "pensioners" orchestra Unowned
Anatoliy Kirillov amateur participant Unowned
Vladimir Vasilyev Unowned