Overview
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
DirectorKonstantin Bromberg
ProducersLyudmila Pozdnyakova
WritersBoris Strugatskiy, Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Top Casts

Aleksandr Abdulov
Ivan Sergeevich Puhov

Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasm...
Alyona Igorevna Sanina

Valentin Gaft
Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev

Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Kira Anatolyevna Shemahanskaya

Valeriy Zolotukhin
Ivan Kivrin

Roman Filippov
Modest Kamneyedov

Emmanuil Vitorgan
Kovrov

Mikhail Svetin
Foma Ostapych Bryl

Semyon Farada
Guest from South

Irina Grishina
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LanguageRussian
Production companiesGosteleradio USSR, Odessa Film Studio