The Trust That Went Bust

The Trust That Went Bust (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)