A Soviet kindergarten manager loses his mind in 67 minutes of pure bureaucratic chaos.
A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.
Acting
Ilyinsky's sweating, manic desperation is peak Soviet comedy.
Direction
Tutyshkin squeezes maximum chaos into 67 tight minutes.
Director
Andrei Tutyshkin
Igor Ilyinsky
Zaitsev
Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya
Vera Karpovna - sister-owner of the «Lipki» holiday house
Serafima Birman
Anna Pavlovna - doctor of the «Lipki» holiday house
Vladimir Volodin
Filipp Maksimovicg - door-keeper
Nina Doroshina
Shura - cleaning lady of the «Lipki» holiday house
Sergei Martinson
Miusov
Irina Zarubina
Zoya Valentinovna Dudkina - professor's wife
Rostislav Plyatt
Dudkin - professor
Tamara Loginova
Klava Ignatyuk
Igor Gorbachyov
Kostya Galushkin - husband of Klava Ignatyuk
Dina Andreeva
Polina Eremeevna - Zaitsev's wife
Olga Aroseva
secretary at Miusov
Sergei Blinnikov
visitor to Miusov
Yevgeniy Maksimov
visitor to Miusov
Aleksandr Lebedev
medical orderly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Khrushchev's Thaw, the film gently satirizes Soviet bureaucracy without directly attacking the system—survival through comedy.
Ilyinsky was a beloved Soviet clown who transitioned to film; his physical comedy here draws directly from circus tradition.
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