Carnival Night

(1956)Directed by Eldar Ryazanov78 minMusic, Comedy, Romance

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.

Igor Ilyinskyas Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
Lyudmila Gurchenkoas Lena Krylova
Yuri Belovas Grisha Koltsov
Georgiy Kulikovas Usikov
Sergei Filippovas comrade Nekadilov
Olga Vlasovaas Romashkina
Andrei Tutyshkinas accountant
Gennadi Yudinas conductor
Vladimir Zeldinas Nikolaev, clown Tip
Boris Petkeras Nikolay Sidorov, сlown Top
Aleksey Polevoy
Semyon Khmelnitskiy
Antonina Smetankina
Feliks Yavorsky
Anatoliy Kirillov
Elizaveta Pokrovskaya
Boris Gusakovas dancer
Yuriy Gusakovas dancer
Valentina Shmelevaas Vera
Olga Shmelevaas Nadya
Evgeniya Shmelevaas Lyuba