
Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?
Cast

Agnès Soral
Nicole

Sergey Dreyden
Nikolay Chizhov
Viktor Mikhaylov
Gorokhov

Nina Usatova
Vera

Kira Krejlis-Petrova
Mother-in-law Gorokhov

Natalya Ipatova
daughter Gorokhov
Viktor Gogolev
Ivan Kouzmitch

Tamara Timofeeva
Mariya Olegovna

Andrey Urgant
Gulyaev

Jean Rupert
Monsieur Prevost

Malka Ribowska
Lady in black
Bernard Cassus-Soulanis
Construction company agent
Aleksei Kozodayev
Sidorov

Elena Drapeko
Deputy Director of 'Business Lyceum'

Vladimir Kalish
Petya Ivanov

Aleksei Zalivalov
Petrov - trumpeter

Anatoly Slivnikov
Major militsii

Oleg Belov
Police chief

Tatyana Komarova
Woman activist

Valery Kravchenko
Physical education teacher

Yuri Mamin
Unknown

Guy Séligmann
Unknown

Viktoriya Smolenskaya
Unknown

Arkadiy Tigay
Unknown

Vera Vasileva
Unknown

Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Unknown

Valentin Bukin
Unknown
Varvara Shabalina
Unknown

Aleksandr Gorbachev
Unknown

Yuri Tarasov
Unknown

Viktor Kolpakov
Unknown

Sergey Russkin
Unknown
Mikhail Sharautin
Unknown

Anatoliy Rudakov
Unknown

Georgiy Mochalov
vigilant veteran

Aleksandr Polyakov
Unknown
Igor Bubenchikov
Unknown

Vyacheslav Leykin
Unknown
Vasiliy Azemsha
Unknown
Nelli Molchanova
Unknown
Oleg Yudin
Unknown

Vyacheslav Vasilyev
Unknown

Pavel Kornakov
Unknown

Galina Zaytseva
slob on the tram

Pavel Fetisov
Unknown

Vladimir Sidorov
Head of the French Communist Party
Vladimir Sevostyanikhin
Unknown
I. Fyodorova
Unknown
Crew

Yuri Mamin
Director, Screenplay, Assistant Director, Music

Arkadiy Tigay
Co-Director, Writer

Vladimir Vardunas
Writer

Feliks Mironer
Writer

Vyacheslav Leykin
Writer

Guy Séligmann
Adaptation, Producer

Joële Van Effenterre
Editor
Olga Andrianova
Editor

Anatoly Lapshov
Director of Photography
Sergei Nekrasov
Director of Photography
Bernard Cassus-Soulanis
Assistant Director
Viktor Mikhaylov
Assistant Director
Lavranti Aimrachvilli
Producer
Vera Zelinskaya
Production Design
Tamara Frid
Makeup Artist
Laurence Azouvy
Makeup Artist
Leonid Gavrichenko
Sound Director

Aleksei Zalivalov
Original Music Composer

Iosif Krinskiy
Stunt Coordinator
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