Carnival Night
movie

Released December 29, 1956
Overview
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.
Cast

Igor Ilyinsky
as
Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov

Lyudmila Gurchenko
as
Lena Krylova

Yuri Belov
as
Grisha Koltsov

Andrei Tutyshkin
as
Fyodor Petrovich Mironov

Olga Vlasova
as
Adelaida Kuzminichna Romashkina

Tamara Nosova
as
Tosya Burigina

Georgiy Kulikov
as
Seryozha Usikov

Gennadi Yudin
as
jazz band Conductor

Vladimir Zeldin
as
Nikolayev

Boris Petker
as
Nikolay Sidorov

Sergei Filippov
as
comrade Nekadilov
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Valentina Shmeleva
as
Vera
Crew

Eldar Ryazanov
as
Director

Boris Laskin
as
Writer

Vladimir Polyakov
as
Writer

Arkadi Koltsaty
as
Director of Photography
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Aleksandra Kamagorova
as
Editor
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Oleg Grosse
as
Production Design
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Konstantin Yefimov
as
Production Design

Anatoliy Lepin
as
Original Music Composer

Vadim Korostylyov
as
Lyricist

Vladimir Lifshits
as
Lyricist
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Galina Shakhovskaya
as
Choreographer
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Arkadiy Obrant
as
Choreographer