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The Cat in the Bag

The Cat in the Bag

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 17, 1979

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

33%

Original Title

Кот в мешке

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Director

Georgi Shchukin

Description

Under the guise of "student construction team of graduate students" a brigade of "covenants" arrives to the collective farm, expecting to get one thousand rubles for the construction of the "fountainarium" that is not envisaged by the estimate. However, under the gun of a local photo correspondent and the close attention of the collective farmers, Ruslan Ruslanych, a student of evening school, drunkard Tyulkin, illuminator in the theater Savchuk and hiding from alimony Panin, in order not to give himself away, are forced to work diligently and to be rehabilitated.