Carnival Night (1956)

  • NR
  • 12/29/1956 (SU)
  • Music, Comedy, Romance
  • 1h 18m

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.

Boris Laskin

Writer

Vladimir Polyakov

Writer

Eldar Ryazanov

Director

Cast

Igor Ilyinsky's headshot

Igor Ilyinsky

Серафим Иванович Огурцов
Lyudmila Gurchenko's headshot

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Леночка Крылова
Yuri Belov's headshot

Yuri Belov

Гриша Кольцов
Tamara Nosova's headshot

Tamara Nosova

Тося Бурыгина
Georgiy Kulikov's headshot

Georgiy Kulikov

Серёжа Усиков
Sergei Filippov's headshot

Sergei Filippov

лектор Никадилов
Olga Vlasova's headshot

Olga Vlasova

Аделаида Кузьминична Ромашкина
Andrei Tutyshkin's headshot

Andrei Tutyshkin

Фёдор Петрович Миронов

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