New Year's Abduction

The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.

Mikhail Pugovkin

(senior police lieutenant / French police officer)

Oleg Anofriev

(«kidnapper» / amateur arts activist)

Savely Kramarov

(«kidnapper» / amateur arts activist)

Evgeniy Steblov

(«kidnapper» / amateur arts activist)

Vladimir Belokurov

(Belokurov)

Yukhym Berezin

(Berezin)

Yurii Tymoshenko

(Tymoshenko)

Serafima Birman

(Birman)

Aleksandr Borisov

(Borisov)

Zinovi Vysokovsky

(Vysokovsky)

Rina Zelyonaya

(talkative visitor)

Lyudmila Zykina

(Zykina)

Leonid Kanevsky

(director)

Klara Luchko

(Luchko)

Ivan Lyubeznov

(Lyubeznov)

Muslim Magomayev

(Magomayev)

Aleksandr Menaker

(Menaker)

Mariya Mironova

(Mironova)

Andrey Mironov

(Mironov)

Yelena Obraztsova

(Obraztsova)

Georg Ots

(Ots)

Maya Plisetskaya

(Plisetskaya)

Oleg Popov

(Popov)

Edita Pyekha

(Pyekha)

Nikolai Slichenko

(Slichenko)

Leonid Kharitonov

(Kharitonov)

Lyudmila Shagalova

(Shagalova)

Tatyana Shmyga

(Shmyga)

Maya Menglet

(Menglet)

Alla Larionova

(Larionova)

Vladimir Troshin

(Troshin)

Aleksandr Khvylia

(Khvylia)

Eduard Khil

(Khil)

Georgiy Vitsin

(Vitsin)

Yevgeni Morgunov

(Morgunov)

Nadezhda Rumyantseva

(Rumyantseva)

Nikolai Rybnikov

(Rybnikov)

Zoya Fyodorova

(Fyodorova)

Stanislav Chekan

(circus performer)

Grigoriy Shpigel

(Shpigel)

Elena Maksimova

(Maksimova)

Georgiy Yumatov

(Yumatov)

Mark Novitsky

(Novitsky)

Yuriy Gusakov

(tap dancer)

Zoya Kharabadze

(member of a vocal quartet “Accord”)

Shota Kharabadze

(member of a vocal quartet “Accord”)

Inna Myasnikova

(member of a vocal quartet “Accord”)

Vladislav Lynkovskiy

(member of a vocal quartet “Accord”)