Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.

Mamuka Kikaleishvili
as Khattam Askerov

Hasanagha Turabov
as Gazanfar Mamedovich

Yashar Nuri
as Mashalla

Larisa Borodina
as Irada

Agagusein Kerimov
as Mirza-baba

Hamlet Xanizadeh
as Alesker Abbasovich

Malik Dadashev
as molla

Zarnigyar Agakishiyeva
as mother-in-law

Hadji Ismailov
as wanderer

Basti Jafarova
as Alesker's secretary