Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...
Микола Гринько
as Andrei Maksimovich / Viscount de Cordel
Владимир Высоцкий
as Bengalsky / Nikolai Kovalenko
Ефим Копелян
as Bobruisky-Dumbadze
Лионелла Пырьева
as Sophie
Иван Переверзев
as general-governor
Георгий Юматов
as Maksim
Николай Федорцов
as Borisov
Vladimir Shubarin
as Alfred II
Рада Волшанинова
as Granovskaya
Nikolai Volshaninov
as Granovsky
Эльвира Бруновская
as Evelina
Борислав Брондуков
as watchman
