Carnival Night

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 Ilyinsky

(Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov)

Lyudmila Gurchenko

(Lena Krylova)

Yuri Belov

(Grisha Koltsov)

Georgiy Kulikov

(Usikov)

Sergei Filippov

(comrade Nekadilov)

Olga Vlasova

(Romashkina)

Andrei Tutyshkin

(accountant)

Tamara Nosova

(Tosya)

Gennadi Yudin

(conductor)

Vladimir Zeldin

(Nikolaev, clown Tip)

Boris Petker

(Nikolay Sidorov, сlown Top)

Valentin Bryleev

(Kostya)

Aleksey Polevoy

(Eduard Nikiforov)

Semyon Khmelnitskiy

(Vasili Telegin)

Antonina Smetankina

(aunt Dusya)

Vladimir Pitsek

(floor polisher)

Feliks Yavorsky

(head of the choir circle / "Vasily Benediktovich Sviristinsky-Shmygaylo" / conductor of the "pensioners" orchestra)

Anatoliy Kirillov

(amateur participant)

Elizaveta Pokrovskaya

(Elizaveta Telegina)

Boris Gusakov

(mexican tap dancer)

Yuriy Gusakov

(mexican tap dancer)

Valentina Shmeleva

(Vera)

Olga Shmeleva

(Nadya)

Evgeniya Shmeleva

(Lyuba)

Tamara Sokolova

(dancer)

Pyotr Pomazkov

(dancer)

Valentin Abramov

(guest (uncredited))

Arutyun Akopyan

(magician (uncredited))

Yuri Afanasiev

(episode (uncredited))

Vitaly Balagurov

(episode (uncredited))

Igor Belsky

(episode (uncredited))

Boris Belyakov

(episode (uncredited))

Inga Budkevich

(episode (uncredited))

Natalia Valandina

(episode (uncredited))

Vladimir Vasilyev

(episode (uncredited))

Viktor Geraskin

(episode (uncredited))

Vladimir Gusev

(episode (uncredited))

Zoya Zelinskaya

(episode (uncredited))

Yuriy Kireev

(episode (uncredited))

Stanislav Korenev

(episode (uncredited))

Ivan Kosykh

(episode (uncredited))

Mariya Kravchunovskaya

(episode (uncredited))

Lev Lobov

(episode (uncredited))

Yevgeniya Lyzhina

(episode (uncredited))

Valentin Maklashin

(episode (uncredited))

Boris Matveev

(episode (uncredited))

Inna Myasnikova

(episode (uncredited))

Svetlana Nemolyaeva

(episode (uncredited))

Andrey Nikolaev

(episode (uncredited))

Viktor Novoselsky

(episode (uncredited))

Ella Olkhovskaya

(episode (uncredited))

Vera Petrova

(episode (uncredited))

Eleonora Prokhnitskaya

(episode (uncredited))

Roza Romanovskaya

(episode (uncredited))

Yury Saulsky

(episode (uncredited))

Vladimir Seleznyov

(episode (uncredited))

Vladimir Smirnov

(episode (uncredited))

Nadezhda Sementsova

(episode (uncredited))

Nikolay Sibeikin

(episode (uncredited))

Inna Ulyanova

(episode (uncredited))

Valentina Ushakova

(episode (uncredited))

Zoya Kharabadze

(episode (uncredited))

Anatoli Chebotaryov

(episode (uncredited))

Larisa Shepitko

(episode (uncredited))

Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy

(episode (uncredited))