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.
Kirill Pirogov
Lev Nikolaev
Yuri Butorin
Oleg Orlov
Kseniya Kutepova
Inna
Galina Tyunina
Tatiana Peresvetova
Polina Kutepova
Tamara
Tagir Rakhimov
major
Yevgeni Tsyganov
Evgeniy
Rustem Yuskaev
Soykin
Karen Badalov
KGB colonel
Ilya Lyubimov
Ilya
Nikita Tyunin
Lavrentiev
Madlen Dzhabrailova
Nelly
Andrey Kazakov
liaison
Alexandr Mizev
Vera Strokova
Lenochka
Ivan Verkhovykh
chess player
Aleksey Kolubkov
editor from radio 'Svoboda'
Vladimir Svirskiy
currency trader
Polina Agureeva
Polina
Serafima Ogareva
Lavrentiev's assistant
Galina Kashkovskaya
Sovexportfilm's spokeperson
Mikhail Krylov
sound technician
Natalia Martynova
noise suppressor
Darya Konyzheva
makeup artist
Ekaterina Smirnova
dresser
Vladimir Toptsov
district committee secretary
Igor Voynarovskiy
film critic
Pavel Barshak
foreigner
Tomas Motskus
Nikolaev's brother
Mariya Bolshova
beer seller
Mariya Andreeva
Maria
Roza Shmukler
Panov's wife
Nikolay Orlovskiy
person on buisness trip
Yelena Voronchikhina
nurse