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Author: Ken Whitmore
Date: October 1999
Photos: Non Available
Synopsis: Osip, a fervent young Patty member, is confused with Ivan, a Jewish dissident poet. Ivan is en route for Siberia and imprisonment, while Osip is travelling there to inspire the residents of Poshlost to heroic efforts. Anton, the local Party Secretary, has just returned from a trip to the West with his suitcase loaded with forbidden luxuries, and together with the other local party officials, is thrown into a panic at the prospect of the arrival of a keen Communist. Yet in the ensuing hilarious confusion the dissident Ivan achieves quite remarkable results ...
Sonya Alexandrovna...............Josephine Liptrott
Natasha Antonova..................Angela Temple
Sargent...................................Fred Cameron
Svetlana..................................Victoria Chapman
Ivan Alexandrovich.................Steve Doyle
Osip Knostantinovich..............Chris Holmes
Anton Antonovich...................Howard Morris
Anna Andreyevna...................Elsie Morris
Bobchinsky.............................Val Malin
Dobchinsky.............................Rachel Hibbert
Colonel Bullbich......................Simon Bromley
General Petra Mikalovsky.......Sarah Yates
Directed by Josephine Liptrott and Stephen Doyle