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

The Trust That Went Bust
Directed by	Aleksandr Pavlovsky
Written by	Igor Shevtsov
Produced by	Mikhail Byaly
Starring	Regimantas Adomaitis Nikolai Karachentsov Leonid Kuravlyov Mikhail Svetin Irina Ponarovskaya Vladimir Basov
Cinematography	Vyacheslav Syomin
Edited by	Inna Chausskaya
Music by	Maksim Dunayevsky
Production company	Odessa Film Studio
Release date	1983 (1983)
Running time	196 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Cast

• Regimantas Adomaitis as Andy Tucker (voiced-over by Aleksandr Demyanenko 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 Pierpont 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 Ilyichov 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
• Boris Astankov
• Vitaly Derkach
• Sergey Zinchenko
• Georgy Derevyansky
• Igor Tiltikov
• Gennady Butrov

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 IMDb