Film · Comedy
Zigzag of Success (1968)
Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...
- Director
- Eldar Ryazanov
- Writers
- Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov, Anatoliy Stepanov
- Country
- Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Release date
- December 30, 1968
- Original title
- Зигзаг удачи
Cast
Evgeni LeonovVladimir Oreshnikov
Irina SkobtsevaLidiya Sergeyevna
Valentina TalyzinaAlevtina Vasiliyevna
Evgeniy EvstigneevIvan Kalachyov
Aleksei GribovPolotentsev
Gotlib RoninsonLidiya's Husband
Georgi BurkovPetya
Valentina TelichkinaOlya- Svetlana StarikovaIra
- Boris SuslovYura
Nina SazonovaMariya Petrovna
Viktor ShulginVasili Aleksandrovich
Antonina Dmitrieva
Feliks Yavorsky
Vladimir Gulyaev
Ekaterina Savinova
Zoya Isaeva
Nina Agapova- Vitaliy Komissarov
Viktor Kolpakov
