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Carnival Night

(1956)

December 29, 1956• 1h 18m
70%
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Overview

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.

Eldar Ryazanov

Director

Top Billed Cast

II

Igor Ilyinsky

Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov

LG

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Lena Krylova

YB

Yuri Belov

Grisha Koltsov

GK

Georgiy Kulikov

Usikov

SF

Sergei Filippov

comrade Nekadilov

OV

Olga Vlasova

Romashkina

AT

Andrei Tutyshkin

accountant

TN

Tamara Nosova

Tosya

GY

Gennadi Yudin

conductor

VZ

Vladimir Zeldin

Nikolaev, clown Tip