High Security Comedy

The film takes place in a strict regime colony. The date of the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s birth (that is, April 1970) is approaching. In order to demonstrate cultural work to the higher authorities, the colony management decides to prepare for the jubilee a performance dedicated to the October Revolution . Leading roles must be played by prisoners.

The prisoners were interested in the performance: they distribute among themselves the roles of revolutionaries - Lenin , Sverdlov , Dzerzhinsky - and begin to get used to the image and are addicted to it. Like revolutionaries, they strive for freedom: they decide to free themselves for the beginning and to arrange an escape from the colony. Prisoner Zuev, having some external resemblance to the leader of the world revolution, receives the role of Lenin. Being first at the very bottom of the prison hierarchy , Zuev, thanks to his role, suddenly becomes one of the leaders of the mass escape.

• Film Festival "Constellation-92" - Prize for the best male role (Viktor Sukhorukov)
• III Festival of Russian Cinema in Honfleur - Prize for the best male role (Viktor Sukhorukov)

Performance actors

• Viktor Sukhorukov - s / c Gregory Zuev (nicknamed Pleshak) / Lenin
• Viktor Solovyov - s / c Borin / Dzerzhinsky
• Stanislav Kontsevich - s / c Livshits / Sverdlov
• Lev Kubarev - s / k Gorshkov / worker Vasily
• Nadezhda Zharikova ^[2] - storekeeper Zoya Vasilyevna Korovina / Commissioner Antonina Anikeeva
• Yury Vyushin - s / v Vyacheslav Sverchkov / sailor Fedor
• Yevgeny Merkuryev - s / m Mizin / Menshevik Martov
• Yuri Eller - s / to Shevchenko, reciter of Mayakovsky poems

Officials of TIC

• Vladimir Kalish - Major General (with cavalry manners), ITC inspector
• Victor Mikhailov - Major, head of the ITK № 7
• Ivan Krivoruchko - captain V. Poe (luyanov?), Political officer ITK No. 7, art director. prison performance
• Anatoly Slivnikov - warrant officer Smolyarchuk, head of ITC mode No. 7
• Vyacheslav Yakovlev - sergeant, head of ITK No. 7 security
• Konstantin Demidov - Private Vasilyev, ITK No. 7 security guard, director of the prison performance
• Alexey Poluyan - Private ITK number 7 (with erotic magazine)

Episodic Roles

• Igor Vukolov - s / c Lomidze, prison performance make-up artist
• Sergey Selin - sergeev s / c, cook
• Vyacheslav Melekhov
• Viktor Glushchenko
• Yuri Solovyov
• Viktor Ivanov
• Roman Novikov
• Yuri Kostygin (listed as Kostygov)
• Vladimir Yermilov
• Viktor Prokhorov

and etc.

• Screenwriters: Vladimir Studennikov and Mikhail Grigoriev
• Directed by: Vladimir Studennikov and Mikhail Grigoriev
• Directors: Yuri Pashigorev and Pavel Parkhomenko
• Operator: Anatoly Lapshov
• Sound producer: Leonid Gavrichenko
• Composer: Victor Pleshak
• Editor: Svetlana Smolina
• Costume Designer: Tatyana Patrakhaltseva

Filming took place in correctional facilities of St. Petersburg (IZ-45/4 and US-20/5 in the village of Metallostroy ) and the Leningrad Region (US-20/4 in the village of Fornosovo ), as well as in the House of Culture. A. V. Lunacharsky.

• High Security Vacation

• “High Definition Comedy” on the Encyclopedia of Domestic Cinema website
• Comedy Strict Mode (English) on the Internet Movie Database
• “High Security Comedy” on the Hacker website
• “High Security Comedy” on the Video Guide website