What if finding a fortune was the worst thing that ever happened to you?
The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at all easy to find a worthy use for such money, and in the final it turns out a simple truth — “happiness is not in money ...”
Direction
Rogozhkin's signature blend of absurdism and social critique.
Acting
Migitsko's transformation from everywoman to something harder.
Director
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Yekaterina Migitsko
Екатерина Шальк - «Катёнок»
Igor Sergeev
Игорь Сергеев
Sergey Migitsko
Ганс Шальк
Igor Golovin
сутенёр
Aleksey Poluyan
Алексей Владимирович - бандит
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Татьяна Борисовна
Viktor Bychkov
Сергей - муж Татьяны
Yuriy Orlov
Шиллер
Valeri Mironov
капитан катера
Boris Cherdyntsev
аферист
Boris Morozov
Tatyana Zakharova
уборщица в вагоне-ресторане
Valery Kravchenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Russia's wild 1990s, the film captures the moral freefall after Soviet collapse—sudden wealth as existential threat rather than fantasy.
Rogozhkin later directed the cult hit 'The Cuckoo' and 'Peculiarities of the National Hunt,' forming a trilogy of Russian identity in chaos; this early work shows his style forming around the suitcase-as-MacGuffin.
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