Shot in the coffin

The story begins with an amnesty , according to which three leaders of the mafia, doubles of colonels - prison leaders, are released. The Trinity of Morgunists has its own plans that attract the attention of KGB officers . Special agent Stepan Saturday was sent to fight against mafiosi.

The physical elimination of the mafia should occur in the Crimea, in one of the government hotels, where Saturday gets acquainted with the variety show dancer Stella.

The trinity mafiosi, by dressing in women's clothing, cracked down on the colonel and his people, infiltrated the political leader in the form of typists to work on his wife’s book.

To the finale, the mafia leaders are again in custody. This time in the cooperative prison "Comfort" in a common cell with sea views.

• Mikhail Pugovkin - Colonel / Butylkin
• George Vitsin - Head of the Prison Colonel Zakusnyak
• Evgeny Morgunov - Colonel / Kovbasyuk
• Spartak Mishulin - Colonel / Bulkin
• Stepan Starchikov - Stepan Saturday
• Svetlana Kopylova - Stella, dancer
• Igor Starygin - Max
• Milena Tontogode - Christina, dancer
• Vitaly Konyaev - General Chachin
• Igor Vasiliev - General Kagorny
• Vladimir Korenev - General Konyachkov
• Romualds Antzans - General Likyorov
• Jacob Buzhak is a political leader
• Natalia Nakonechnaya - wife of a political leader
• Sergey Onikienko - Major Bukhailo
• Vyacheslav Voronin - General Sklifosovsky

In episodes

• Bogdan Benyuk - Roman, the owner of a car repair shop
• Natalya Sumskaya - Roman's wife
• George Gavrilenko - security guard
• Mikhail Ignatov - guard at the funeral
• Yuri Kritenko - an employee of the organs
• Valery Nakonechny
• Alexander Ageenkov - captain Shmurdyak
• Vasily Galata - an employee of the organs
• Tatyana Antonova - dancer
• Elina Bardina - Glafira Isaakovna, Hotel Administrator
• Ksenia Kovaleva - dancer
• Lyudmila Shtogarenko
• O. Zhidkova
• Vera Sirash - receptionist at the hotel

• Script writers:
  • Mikhail Chernichuk
  • Nikolay Zaseev
• Stage Director: Nikolay Zaseev
• Director of photography: Valery Chumak
• Set Designer: Vyacheslav Rozhkov
• Composer: Evgeny Krylatov
• Lyrics: Leonid Frantsuzov

• Encyclopedia "Who is who in the world" notes:

“The last role of Vitsin in the film “ Shot in the Sepulcher ” is a kind of farewell to the actor with his long-standing hero Coward . Although the film has both an eccentric and dressing up, and funny tricks, the image created by the actor is more like an old clown than a traditional comedian ” ^[1] .

• Mikhail Pugovkin recalls the film:

“ Zaseev also wanted, like Leonid Gaidai , to do things of the Chaplinsky type, and therefore decided to repeat Gaidai and make a new three - this is Evgeny Morgunov , Spartak Mishulin and I. None of this came out. People looked at the picture and did not understand. There was no script, but most importantly, there was no movie ” ^[2]

• A Shot in a Coffin on the Internet Movie Database
• "Shot in a coffin" on the RUSKINO website
• "Shot in a coffin" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"
• "Shot in a coffin" on the site of memory of George Vitsin