

88 minutes
1/1/1990
The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”

Vladimir Ilin
as Fima Rakhlin

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
as Zinaida Ivanovna Kukushkina

Evgeniy Evstigneev
as Konstantin Baranov

Oleg Efremov
as Pyotr Nikolayevich Lukin

Igor Vladimirov
as Vasiliy Stepanovich Karetnikov

Yevgeni Vesnik
as Solomon Yevseyevich Fishkin

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
as Vasiliy Tryoshkin

Oleg Tabakov
as Andrey Andreyevich Shchupov

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
as Marshal Pobratimov

Yuri Volyntsev
as Ivan Fedoseyevich

Yevgeni Zharikov
as Novikov

Nina Menshikova
as Larisa Yevgenyevna

Aleksandr Pyatkov
as Samarin

Lidiya Smirnova
as Natalya Knysh

Mariya Vinogradova
as Dasha

Vladislav Demchenko
as Tishka
Dmitriy Belyshev
as Waiter
Tamara Voronkova

Aleksandr Aleksandrov
as Viktor Cherpakov