The Trust That Went Bust

The Trust That Went Bust (Russian: Трест, который лопнул; 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 Dem'yanenko 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 Pierpoint 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 Ilyichyov 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
• Ingrīda Andriņa as Mrs. Ezra Plunkett
• Oleg Fedulov as Drunk man (uncredited)
• Leonid Anisimov
• Viktor Andriyenko
• Valeri Bassel
• S. Andrukhovich
• B. Astankov
• V. Derkap
• S. Zinchenko
• G. Derevyansky
• I. Giltikov
• G. Butrov
• A. Yankov

Songs in the film

• Composer - Maksim Dunayevsky
• Lyrics by Naum Olev (1-3 parts), Leonid Filatov (1st part)

External links

• The Trust That Went Bust at AllMovie
• The Trust That Went Bust at the Internet Movie Database