Carnival in Moscow
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
Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov

Yuri Belov
Grisha - Koltsov

Georgiy Kulikov
Usikov - Seryozha

Olga Vlasova
Ramashkina - Adelaida Kuzminichna

Andrey Tutyshkin
Bookkeeper - Fyodor Petrovich Mironov

Tamara Nosova
Tosya - Burygina, Ogurtsov's secretary

Gennadi Yudin
Conductor - of the Youth Orchestra

Vladimir Zeldin
Clown - 'Top' Nikolay Sidorov

Valentin Bryleev
Kostya

Aleksey Polevoy
Eduard Nikiforov
Semyon Khmelnitskiy
Vasili Telegin
Antonina Smetankina
aunt Dusya


