Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...

Mykola Hrynko
as Andrei Maksimovich / Viscount de Cordel

Vladimir Vysotsky
as Bengalsky / Nikolai Kovalenko

Efim Kopelyan
as Bobruisky-Dumbadze

Lionella Pyryeva
as Sophie

Ivan Pereverzev
as general-governor

Georgiy Yumatov
as Maksim

Nikolay Fedortsov
as Borisov

Vladimir Shubarin
as Alfred II

Rada Volshaninova
as Granovskaya

Nikolai Volshaninov
as Granovsky