The specifics of the struggle for a place under the sun in the realities of the Soviet economic system, ingeniously designed with the denial of private property and market pricing. It is possible to build a garage only with the use of mechanisms of a parallel economy, and to acquire it, at least on bird rights, is not easy for even a powerful director of the market - even for the happy owner of a jacket from Singapore, the son of Tov himself. Merciful, a representative of a bizarrely modified princely estate, living somewhere in the underworld. The solution to a complex problem that is needed in the shortest possible time crystallizes in the chaos of collective brainstorming: space for the writer, director and actors.
A masterpiece by Ryazanov, a group portrait of the educated part of Soviet citizens from the metropolis of the 70s. Bright types (especially performed by Ia Savvina and Vyacheslav Innocent), honed dialogue throughout the film and selective sardonic humor. Notable are the muffled laughter of the characters who hear the call to live according to democratic Soviet principles, and the fronding of the Honored Professor with laying out business cards in bags of potatoes - already knowing the edge, but still brought to the attention of one weighty organization.