
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.

Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. Petersburg, disguised, he pretends to be the ace Ivan Piramida. He has to perform at the festival, but he only knows how to fly "according to the books", but he manages not to lose face. After a lot of ups and downs associated with his similarity in makeup with a famous criminal, Yura confesses everything to his beloved and flies already under his real name.

Nikolai Karachentsov

Lyubov Reymer

Emmanuil Vitorgan

Rolan Bykov

Vladimir Basov

Evgeniy Steblov

Mikhail Boyarskiy

Mykola Hrynko

Oleg Anofriev

Sergey Migitsko
While the Dream is Mad is a comedy, adventure film released in 1978. Directed by Yuriy Gorkovenko, it stars Nikolai Karachentsov, Lyubov Reymer, Emmanuil Vitorgan. Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. Petersburg, disguised, he pretends to be the ace Ivan Piramida. He has to perform at the festival, but he only knows how to fly "according to the books", but he manages not to lose face. After a lot of ups and downs associated with his similarity in makeup with a famous criminal, Yura confesses everything to his beloved and flies already under his real name.
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