Under the guise of "student construction team of graduate students" a brigade of "covenants" arrives to the collective farm, expecting to get one thousand rubles for the construction of the "fountainarium" that is not envisaged by the estimate. However, under the gun of a local photo correspondent and the close attention of the collective farmers, Ruslan Ruslanych, a student of evening school, drunkard Tyulkin, illuminator in the theater Savchuk and hiding from alimony Panin, in order not to give himself away, are forced to work diligently and to be rehabilitated.
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Boryslav Brondukov
Tyulkin
Stanislav Sadalskiy
Ruslanych
Viktor Ilichyov
Savchuk
Oleg Anofriev
Panin
Tatyana Novitskaya
Alevtina
Ivan Ryzhov
grandfather Timonya
Mariya Skvortsova
grandmother Lena
Svetlana Kharitonova
Gromova
Andrei Petrov
farm chairman
Lyudmila Ivanova
Lykin's mother
Tatyana Khoroshevtseva
Katya the telephonist
Lidiya Ryumina
Alevtina's mother
Aleksandr Pashutin
head of the club
Rudolf Rudin
theater director
Sergei Klokov
Grishka
