The film is a series of short comedies, based on humorous
anecdotes,
stories and
notebooks of famous
satirist writers
Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. These comedies describe the everyday life of
Moscow and in the 1920s and 1930s; the film uses a lot of
newsreels of the time. Comedy's subjects are various as life itself. For example, a clerk named Kapitulov is constantly scaring his wife and colleagues with his poor health. As a result, all the household chores is shouldered on his wife, and his colleagues at work do all Kapitulov's duties, while he sleeps nearby, sitting on a chair ... ==Cast==