The Cat in the Bag
1979, Russian. Directed by Georgi Shchukin.
Under the guise of "student construction team of graduate students" a brigade of "covenants" arrives to the collective farm, expecting to get one thousand rubles for the construction of the "fountainarium" that is not envisaged by the estimate. However, under the gun of a local photo correspondent and the close attention of the collective farmers, Ruslan Ruslanych, a student of evening school, drunkard Tyulkin, illuminator in the theater Savchuk and hiding from alimony Panin, in order not to give himself away, are forced to work diligently and to be rehabilitated.
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Georgi ShchukinDirector
- Boryslav BrondukovTyulkin
- Stanislav SadalskiyRuslanych
- Viktor IlichyovSavchuk
- Oleg AnofrievPanin
- Tatyana NovitskayaAlevtina
- Ivan Ryzhovgrandfather Timonya
- Mariya Skvortsovagrandmother Lena
- Svetlana KharitonovaGromova
- Andrei Petrovfarm chairman
- Lyudmila IvanovaLykin's mother
- Tatyana KhoroshevtsevaKatya the telephonist
- Lidiya RyuminaAlevtina's mother
Details
- Released
- 17 September 1979
- Original title
- Кот в мешке
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Georgi Shchukin, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
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The Cat in the Bag runs 83 minutes (1h 23m).
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The Cat in the Bag isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 September 1979. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Cat in the Bag?
The Cat in the Bag (1979) was directed by Georgi Shchukin and stars Boryslav Brondukov, Stanislav Sadalskiy, Viktor Ilichyov.