
124 minutes
12/1/1989
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