Synopsis
Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. He abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Vladimir PetrovDirector
- Vladimir PetrovScreenplay
- Nikolay TimofeyevOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Igor GorbachyovCast
- Anastasiya GeorgiyevskayaMme. Anna Andreyevna Skvoznik-Dmukhanoskaya
- Tamara NosovaCast
- Aleksandr PolinskiyDobchinskiy
- Yuriy TolubeevCast
- Elena PonsovaIvanova
- Ivan RyzhovСвистунов (полицейский)
- Anatoliy Kubatskiyслуга трактирный
- Anna ZarzhitskayaKorobkina
- Vladimir UralskiyMerchant
- Sergey SolonitskiyCast
- Nadezhda KovalyovaCast