Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up...
Vladimir Petrov
Director
Igor Gorbachyov
Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya
Mme. Anna Andreyevna Skvoznik-Dmukhanoskaya
Tamara Nosova
Aleksandr Polinskiy
Dobchinskiy
Yuriy Tolubeev
Elena Ponsova
Ivanova
Ivan Ryzhov
Свистунов (полицейский)
Anatoliy Kubatskiy
слуга трактирный
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Korobkina
Vladimir Uralskiy
Merchant
Sergey Solonitskiy
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