It Can't Be!

In the first novel describes the complexity of the shop manager Gorbushkin living in Soviet times, the end of the 1920s on unearned income. Being called to the investigator, he thoroughly believes that this will not bring anything good. These thoughts go to his wife and brother-in-law. Anna Vasilyevna, who, in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of property urgently sell everything that was acquired by "back-breaking" labor. In addition, Anna hastily divorces with the main character and marries a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And Gorbushkin, who is only called as a witness (a week before he still got arrested), returns in a good mood back home.

• Mikhail Pugovkin — Gorbushkin, store manager
• Nina Grebeshkova — Anna Vasilyevna, Gorbushkin's wife
• Vyacheslav Nevinny — Gorbushkin's brother-in-law, beer seller
• Mikhail Svetin — Vitaly Borisovich Bananov, Gorbushkin's neighbor
• Radner Muratov — militiaman
• Lev Polyakov — investigator
• Natalya Krachkovskaya — buyer of paintings
• Igor Yasulovich — Lyolik, buyer of paintings' husband
• Georgy Svetlani — beer lover
• Viktor Uralsky — little man with a pig
• Vladimir Gulyaev — the one-eyed furniture buyer
• Eduard Bredun — assistant buyer of furniture

The following short story of the film shows the intricacies of extramarital relations. Heading into the weekend supposedly to work, but in reality to his mistress, and sometimes hard to imagine that her husband's mistress could be lover lover friend, neighbor, friend and lover in the communal - a lover of your own wife. In the end, all six characters is purely coincidental, with interesting circumstances intersect together and gathered around the table, trying to find a way out of this situation, but in the end did not need and did not come. In any case, such a conclusion can be drawn from rolling in extreme caricature dispute sixes at the table.

• Oleg Dahl — Anatoly (a.k.a. Anatole) Barygin-Amurskiy
• Svetlana Kryuchkova — Zinaida (a.k.a. Zinulya), Nicholas's wife
• Mikhail Kokshenov — Sophia's neighbor
• Natalya Seleznyova — Tatiana (a.k.a. Tanya) Barygin-Amurskya, Anatoly's wife
• Evgeny Zharikov — Nicholas (a.k.a. Coca), Zinaida's husband
• Larisa Eryomina — Sophia (a.k.a. Sofochka), Zinaida's friend and «former ballerina of noblewomen»
• Zoya Isayeva — Sophia's neighbor, wash clothes in the basin
• Elena Volskaya — flower-girl
• Georgi Yumatov — passer-by with a bulldog

• Leonid Kuravlyov — Vladimir Zavitushkin, groom
• Valentina Telichkina — Catherine, Zavitushkin's bride
• Lyudmila Shagalova — mother of Catherine
• Georgy Vitsin — father of Catherine
• Savely Kramarov — Sergei Ivanovich (a.k.a. Seryoga), Zavitushkin's friend, womanizer and heartthrob
• Svetlana Kharitonova — Elmira, Catherine's girlfriend, always says: «enchanting!»
• Sergey Filippov — singer
• Natalya Krachkovskaya — 1st guest
• Igor Yasulovich — 2nd guest
• Eve Kivi — wife of Ivan Izrailevich
• Gotlib Roninson — Ivan Izrailevich, one of the guests
• Klara Rumyanova — one of the wedding guests