The Trust That Went Bust

196 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

The Trust That Went Bust (Russian: Трест, который лопнул; Trest, kotoryy lopnul) is a Soviet 1983 musical TV miniseries (total runtime 196 min) based on short stories by O. Henry: "The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Hand That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", and "The Ethics of Pig". Directed by Aleksandr Pavlovsky. Screenplay by Igor Shevtsov

Cast

• Regimantas Adomaitis as Andy Tucker (voiced-over by Aleksandr Demyanenko on dialogue and Pavel Smeyan in songs)
• Nikolai Karachentsov as Jeff Peters
• Leonid Kuravlyov as Farmer Ezra Plunkett
• Mikhail Svetin as Doorman Klein
• Irina Ponarovskaya as Pseudo-Sarah Bernhardt
• Vladimir Basov as Pseudo-John Pierpont Morgan
• Yuri Mazhuga as Bill Humble
• Pavel Vinnik as The storeowner
• Yelena Aminova as Female secretary at the ministry
• Vsevolod Abdulov as Joe Blassome
• Tamara Yatsenko as The widowed Miss Trotter (voiced-over by Natalya Andrejchenko)
• Viktor Ilyichov as Ruf Tattum
• Gennadi Yalovich as The postman
• Boris Novikov as The artillerist
• Lev Perfilov as The keyhole-peeping con artist
• David Makarevsky as The Mayor
• Aleksandr Pavlovsky as The Mayor's nephew
• Viktor Pavlovsky as The policeman
• Mikhail Muromov as The busker
• Ingrīda Andriņa as Mrs. Ezra Plunkett
• Oleg Fedulov as Drunk man (uncredited)
• Leonid Anisimov
• Viktor Andriyenko
• Valeri Bassel
• Boris Astankov
• Vitaly Derkach
• Sergey Zinchenko
• Georgy Derevyansky
• Igor Tiltikov
• Gennady Butrov

Songs in the film

• Composer - Maksim Dunayevsky
• Lyrics by Naum Olev (1-3 parts), Leonid Filatov (1st part)

External links

• The Trust That Went Bust at AllMovie
• The Trust That Went Bust at IMDb