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.

7

78 min

Cast

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)

Director

Eldar Ryazanov