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