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The Trust That Went Bust
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Wikipedia article
'The Trust That Went Bust' (; '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
* Ingrda Andria 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)
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