Carnival Night

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 29, 1956

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm

Cast

Gennadi Yudin,Boris Belyakov,Andrey Nikolaev,Vera Petrova,Sergei Filippov,Viktor Geraskin,Tamara Nosova,Nikolay Sibeikin,Igor Ilyinsky,Svetlana Nemolyaevaand 55 more

Director

Eldar Ryazanov

Writer

Vladimir Polyakov,Vadim Korostylyov,Vladimir Lifshits,N. Orlov,Boris Laskin

Producer

Valentin Maslov

Cinematography

Arkadi Koltsaty

Music

Anatoliy Lepin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0049397