
In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the CIA.

as Lev Nikolaev

as Oleg Orlov

as Inna

as Tatiana Peresvetova

as Tamara

as major

as Evgeniy

as Soykin

as KGB colonel

as Ilya

as Lavrentiev

as Nelly

as liaison


as Lenochka

as chess player

as translator

as Panov

as editor from radio 'Svoboda'

as currency trader

as Polina

as Lavrentiev's assistant

as Sovexportfilm's spokeperson

as sound technician

as noise suppressor

as makeup artist

as dresser

as clapperboard girl

as district committee secretary

as film critic

as foreigner

as Nikolaev's brother

as beer seller

as Maria

as doorman in Metropol

as Panov's wife

as novelist

as person on buisness trip

as Georgian man from Red Army

as nurse

as Lyudov