One man. Thirteen errands. Zero memory of what he's supposed to buy. Soviet chaos ensues.
Supply clerk Chuvilikhin goes to Moscow to fulfill his coworkers' errands. In the hustle and bustle of the capital, he loses the list where the name of the sheet music to be bought for the director's wife was written down. Anatoly Stepanovich rushes around the city trying to remember the melody.
Acting
Trofimov's sweaty, desperate everyman energy carries every frame
Production
1969 Moscow captured in frantic, claustrophobic authenticity
Director
Vadim Lysenko
Nikolay Trofimov
Anatoliy Chuvilikhin
Alyosha Semyonov
Kot'ka
Sergei Martinson
pozhiloy chelovek - meloman
Ivan Lapikov
master - remontnik po dveryam
Valentin Nikulin
pokupatel v univermage
Lyudmila Shagalova
Zarya Nevskaya - dressirovshchitsa sobak
Vadim Zakharchenko
Maks Nevskiy
Zinaida Dekhtyaryova
Raisa Pavlovna
Marina Gavrilko
pokupatelnitsa
Emilya Serdyuk
mama Vovochki
Mihail Badiceanu
papa Vovochki
Zinaida Vorkul
prodavshchitsa
Galina Govorukhina
Sonechka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Soviet TV movie satirizing bureaucratic inefficiency—remarkably subversive for 1969 state television.
Director Vadim Lysenko specialized in these compressed moral comedies; this was considered his sharpest work.
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