Carnival Night
29/12/1956
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.
Movie Information
Igor Ilyinsky
as Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Lena Krylova
Yuri Belov
as Grisha Koltsov
Georgiy Kulikov
as Usikov
Sergei Filippov
as comrade Nekadilov
Olga Vlasova
as Romashkina
Andrei Tutyshkin
as accountant
Tamara Nosova
as Tosya
Gennadi Yudin
as conductor
Vladimir Zeldin
as Nikolaev, clown Tip
Boris Petker
as Nikolay Sidorov, сlown Top
Valentin Bryleev
as Kostya
Aleksey Polevoy
as Eduard Nikiforov
Semyon Khmelnitskiy
as Vasili Telegin
Antonina Smetankina
as aunt Dusya
Vladimir Pitsek
as floor polisher
Feliks Yavorsky
as head of the choir circle / "Vasily Benediktovich Sviristinsky-Shmygaylo" / conductor of the "pensioners" orchestra
Anatoliy Kirillov
as amateur participant
Elizaveta Pokrovskaya
as Elizaveta Telegina
Boris Gusakov
as mexican tap dancer
Yuriy Gusakov
as mexican tap dancer
Valentina Shmeleva
as Vera
Olga Shmeleva
as Nadya
Evgeniya Shmeleva
as Lyuba
Tamara Sokolova
as dancer
Pyotr Pomazkov
as dancer
Valentin Abramov
as guest (uncredited)
Arutyun Akopyan
as magician (uncredited)
Yuri Afanasiev
as episode (uncredited)
Vitaly Balagurov
as episode (uncredited)
Igor Belsky
as episode (uncredited)
Boris Belyakov
as episode (uncredited)
Inga Budkevich
as episode (uncredited)
Natalia Valandina
as episode (uncredited)
Vladimir Vasilyev
as episode (uncredited)
Viktor Geraskin
as episode (uncredited)
Vladimir Gusev
as episode (uncredited)
Zoya Zelinskaya
as episode (uncredited)
Yuriy Kireev
as episode (uncredited)
Stanislav Korenev
as episode (uncredited)
Ivan Kosykh
as episode (uncredited)
Mariya Kravchunovskaya
as episode (uncredited)
Lev Lobov
as episode (uncredited)
Yevgeniya Lyzhina
as episode (uncredited)
Valentin Maklashin
as episode (uncredited)
Boris Matveev
as episode (uncredited)
Inna Myasnikova
as episode (uncredited)
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
as episode (uncredited)
Andrey Nikolaev
as episode (uncredited)
Viktor Novoselsky
as episode (uncredited)
Ella Olkhovskaya
as episode (uncredited)
Vera Petrova
as episode (uncredited)
Eleonora Prokhnitskaya
as episode (uncredited)
Roza Romanovskaya
as episode (uncredited)
Yury Saulsky
as episode (uncredited)
Vladimir Seleznyov
as episode (uncredited)
Vladimir Smirnov
as episode (uncredited)
Nadezhda Sementsova
as episode (uncredited)
Nikolay Sibeikin
as episode (uncredited)
Inna Ulyanova
as episode (uncredited)
Valentina Ushakova
as episode (uncredited)
Zoya Kharabadze
as episode (uncredited)
Anatoli Chebotaryov
as episode (uncredited)
Larisa Shepitko
as episode (uncredited)
Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy
as episode (uncredited)
