The Trust That Has Burst

The Trust That Went Bust
Directed by	Aleksandr Pavlovsky
Production company	Odessa Film Studio
Release dates	1984
Running time	196 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Trust That Went Bust (Russian: Трест, который лопнул; Trest, kotoryy lopnul) is a Soviet 1984 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 Dem'yanenko 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 Pierpoint 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 Ilyichyov 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
• S. Andrukhovich
• B. Astankov
• V. Derkap
• S. Zinchenko
• G. Derevyansky
• I. Giltikov
• G. Butrov
• A. Yankov

Songs in the film

• Composer - Maksim Dunayevsky
• Lyrics by Naum Olev (1-3 parts), Leonid Filatov (1st part)

External links

• The Trust That Has Burst at AllMovie
• The Trust That Has Burst at the Internet Movie Database