
Under the guise of "student construction team of graduate students" a brigade of "covenants" arrives to the collective farm, expecting to get one thousand rubles for the construction of the "fountainarium" that is not envisaged by the estimate. However, under the gun of a local photo correspondent and the close attention of the collective farmers, Ruslan Ruslanych, a student of evening school, drunkard Tyulkin, illuminator in the theater Savchuk and hiding from alimony Panin, in order not to give himself away, are forced to work diligently and to be rehabilitated.

Boryslav Brondukov
Tyulkin

Stanislav Sadalskiy
Ruslanych

Viktor Ilichyov
Savchuk

Oleg Anofriev
Panin

Tatyana Novitskaya
Alevtina

Ivan Ryzhov
grandfather Timonya

Mariya Skvortsova
grandmother Lena

Svetlana Kharitonova
Gromova

Andrei Petrov
farm chairman

Lyudmila Ivanova
Lykin's mother

Tatyana Khoroshevtseva
Katya the telephonist
Lidiya Ryumina
Alevtina's mother

Aleksandr Pashutin
head of the club
Rudolf Rudin
theater director
Sergei Klokov
Grishka