124 minutes
2/5/1990
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian state and the USSR.
Natalya Gundareva
as Clémentine de Bourbon
Svetlana Kryuchkova
as Amalia Stockfisch
Yelena Sanayeva
as Iraida Paleologova
Margarita Terekhova
as Anelka Lyadokhovskaya
Rolan Bykov
as Pyotr Petrovich Ferdyshchenko
Yuri Demich
as Ugryum-Burcheyev
Leonid Kuravlyov
as Vasilisk Borodavkin
Rodion Nahapetov
as Erast Grustilov
Oleg Tabakov
as Dementiy Brudastyy-Organchik
Olga Pashkova
as Alyona Osipova
Oleg Stefan
as Dmitriy Prokofyev
Mikhail Pakhomenko
as Yevseich
Vladimir Kashpur
as Baibakov
Vera Glagoleva
as Pfeifersha
Viktor Gogolev
as granddad
Nikolai Muravyov
as man in the hat
Irina Mazurkevich
as blissful woman Aksinyushka
Aleksandr Polovtsev
as wacky man Paramosha
Aleksandr Galibin
as wacky man Arkhipushko
Viktor Bychkov
as Voblushkin
Valeri Poroshin
as Bogdan Pfeifer
Vyacheslav Tcoy
Anatoliy Romashin
as narrator (voice)
Aleksandr Vontov
Alexei Zubarev
Yuriy Bashkov
Sergey Russkin
Iosif Krinskiy
Nikolay Dik
Nina Antonova
Lyubov Makeeva
Viktor Kazanovich
Oleg Kozaletov
Alexey Bondarenko