
The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”

as Fima Rakhlin

as Zinaida Ivanovna Kukushkina

as Konstantin Baranov

as Pyotr Nikolayevich Lukin

as Vasiliy Stepanovich Karetnikov

as Solomon Yevseyevich Fishkin

as Vasiliy Tryoshkin

as Andrey Andreyevich Shchupov

as Marshal Pobratimov

as Ivan Fedoseyevich

as Novikov

as Larisa Yevgenyevna

as Samarin

as Natalya Knysh

as Dasha

as Tishka

as Waiter


as Viktor Cherpakov