ComedyOverview
Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever.
Cast
Nikolai Okhlopkov
Mitya
Tamara Adelheim
Sofochka
Mykola Nademskyi
Poet-reporter
Serhii Minin
Unknown
Anastasiya Kozhevnikova
Shurochka Gryaznova
Yuri Chernyshov
Volodya Gryaznov
Teodor Brainin
Onion-stealing beggar
A. Gvozdeva
Shurochka's mother
Nikolai Korn
Kazak
Volodymyr Lisovskyi
Drunk best man
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
Sober best man
Saksaganskaya
Mitya's mother