Incorrigible Liar

Plot

Alexei Ivanovich Tyutyurin (Georgy Vitsin) is a very kind and gentle person who has been working as a hairdresser for twenty years. When there is an opportunity to be promoted to the salon's manager, he faces a problem - in the collective he has a reputation for being constantly late and being an incorrigible liar. According to his boss, Vasily Vasilievich Mymrikov (Nikolai Prokopovich), Tyutyurin has two drawbacks: "First, he lies, and secondly, he does not know how to lie," which is why he refuses to sign his recommendation letter.

But in fact Alexei does not deceive anyone - he actually does get into unusual situations on the way to work: he helps a boy to pick up his ball off the roadway, after which he is doused in water by an auto-dispenser, and Tyutyurin has to return home to change clothes; then returns a lost gold cigarette case to a foreign prince, in gratitude for which he arranges dinner in honor of Tyutyurin; then falls under a car driven by pop star Edita Piekha ...

After yet another delay Tyutyurin really does begin to compose a fable. He, with the help of Mymrikov, tells a "believable" story about a party with beauties and dances. The chief remains satisfied with Alexei's "corrected behavior" and decides to sign the character reference letter. But, tormented by remorse, Tyutyurin very quickly confesses that he lied, telling the true story about a girl, a ball and a fountain. Vasily Vasilyevich immediately becomes sure that Alexei is incorrigible and decides to take the most drastic measures. At this time, the prince's translator comes to the beauty salon with a gift for Tyutyurin, and a little later - Edita Piekha with Alexei's wife, and all misunderstandings are resolved.

Cast

Georgy Vitsin - Alexei Ivanovich Tyutyurin

Inna Makarova - Zinaida Nikolaevna Tyutyurina

Nikolai Prokopovich - Vasily Vasilievich Mymrikov

Vladimir Etush - Prince Emir Burukhtan Second Second of Burukhtania

Edita Piekha - cameo

Emmanuel Geller - Rakhtan, the chief servant of the Prince of Burukhtania

Boris Sichkin - translator

Nikolai Pogodin - policeman at the embassy

Nikolay Parfyonov - man in the park who offers to help out for the cigarette case

Ivan Ryzhov - Senior Master

Larisa Barabanova - Hairdresser Katya

Valentina Berezutskaya

Julia Tsoglin - hairdresser

Valentina Khmara - hairdresser

Larisa Vadko - Tyuturin's dance partner

Galina Mikeladze

Alexandra Dorokhina - Misha's mother

Radner Muratov - waterer

Songs

Tak uzh byuvaet (Russian: «Так уж бывает», lit. 'It just happens') performed by Edita Piekha

Pravda i vyumyusel (Russian: «Правда и вымысел», lit. 'Truth and fiction') performed by Georgy Vitsin