A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yuri Lebedev arrives in Moscow from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Yuriy YakovlevAlexander Petrovich Bochkin | Alexander Petrovich Bochkin |
 Faina RanevskayaMargarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot | Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot |
 Nadezhda RumyantsevaGalya | Galya |
 Ninel MyshkovaOlga | Olga |
 Vsevolod SafonovYuri Lebedev | Yuri Lebedev |
 Vera MaretskayaVasilisa Sergeevna | Vasilisa Sergeevna |
 Rostislav PlyattVladimir Gavrilovich Muromtsev | Vladimir Gavrilovich Muromtsev |
 Lyudmila GnilovaGulina | Gulina |
 Georgi TusuzovIvan Sergeyevich | Ivan Sergeyevich |
 Maya BulgakovaNot listed | Not listed |
| KKlavdiya LepanovaCustomer | Customer |
 Galina VodyanitskayaTeacher | Teacher |
 Lyusyena OvchinnikovaMasha | Masha |
 Viktor MarkinMasha's Husband | Masha's Husband |
 Nina IvanovaTanya | Tanya |
 Stanislav KhitrovGraduate | Graduate |
 Svetlana BalashovaDry Cleaner | Dry Cleaner |
 Наталья ГолубенцеваDry Cleaner | Dry Cleaner |
 Ivan ZhevagoOfitsiant | Ofitsiant |
 Yurii TymoshenkoTarapunka | Tarapunka |
 Vladimir KabatchenkoToastmaster | Toastmaster |