The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.

Mikhail Pugovkin
as Gorbushkin

Nina Grebeshkova
as Gorbushkina

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
as Gorbushkina's brother

Mikhail Svetin
as Vitaly Borisovich

Oleg Dal
as Anatoly Barygin-Amursky

Svetlana Kryuchkova
as Zinulya

Mikhail Kokshenov
as «big guy»

Natalya Seleznyova
as Tanyusha

Yevgeni Zharikov
as Nikolay

Larisa Eryomina
as Sofochka