Once upon a time it is not necessary

Three construction trust workers are busy demolishing old buildings. They found a cache of gold bars in the furnace of the house being destroyed. Under the conditions of Soviet reality, it is not possible to sell or even hide the treasure . As a result, hapless treasure hunters lose sleep and rest in an attempt to save gold ...

• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Papashin
• Leonid Kuravlev - Fedor Romanov
• Borislav Brondukov - Vasily Izmailov
• Lyubov Polishchuk - Smirnova
• Viktor Kremlev - police sergeant, Papashin's nephew
• Vladimir Burlakov - Director of the Cemetery
• Vitaly Varganov - jeweler
• Anatoly Vedenkin - foreman Evgeny Vasilyevich
• Maria Vinogradova - the old woman at the station
• Boris Ivanov - Head of HR Department
• Kapitolina Ilenko - the old woman in the cemetery
• Nina Krachkovskaya - acquaintance of Romanova
• Alexander Kudinov - “ Swede”
• Tatiana Mitrushina - duty at the station
• Vladimir Ferapontov - priest

• At the train station, the hero Brondukova watches the film “ Gold Rush ” by C. Chaplin .
• Hero Dzhigarkhanyana tries to realize gold in the Church of the Intercession at Fili .
• Composer Evgeny Krylatov uses his slightly reworked melody “Syroezhkin's Sad Song” in this film from the film “ The Adventures of Electronics ”.
• Mephistopheles' couplets from the opera Gounod “ Faust ” sound in the film.
• The scenes at the cemetery were shot at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow .

• Director: Araik Gabrielyan
• Screenwriters: Valentin Ezhov , Albert Ivanov
• Operator: Sergey Zaitsev

• “Once upon a Time” (English) on the Internet Movie Database
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110611055519/http://etvnet.com/tv/kinolyapyi-online/raz-na-raz-ne-prihoditsya-kinolyap-/403948/