Carnival Night
7.4
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.
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3 films
Cast
65 people
Igor Ilyinsky
Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
Known for
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Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lena Krylova
Known for
Station for Two
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Yuri Belov
Grisha Koltsov
Known for
Gas Station Queen
Old Men: Robbers
Georgiy Kulikov
Usikov
Known for
The Cranes Are Flying
Sergei Filippov
comrade Nekadilov
Known for
12 Chairs
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Olga Vlasova
Romashkina
Andrei Tutyshkin
accountant
Also in
Volga - Volga
A Girl with Character
Tamara Nosova
Tosya
Known for
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Gennadi Yudin
conductor
Also in
The End of the Ataman
Admiral Ushakov
Vladimir Zeldin
Nikolaev, clown Tip
Also in
The Duenna
Swineherd and Shepherd
Boris Petker
Nikolay Sidorov, сlown Top
Also in
A Girl with Guitar
The Wrestler and the Clown
Valentin Bryleev
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
Father Frost
Eldar Ryazanov Director · Vladimir Polyakov Screenplay Boris Laskin Screenplay
First release December 29, 1956 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Карнавальная ночь
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Карнавальная ночь
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 29, 1956
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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