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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
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