Satirical operetta-buffe in three acts by composer Jacques Offenbach.
A successful landscape designer Marina is going to get married. Next Saturday, her high-ranking father will meet her fiancé Alexander. Just a day before the significant Saturday Alexander leaves the Marina.
From a simple misunderstanding, a kind, funny story has grown about charming village people, about ridiculous situations in which they periodically find themselves.
The Potykayev family lives in Moscow in a large house near the Kiev railway station opposite the Foreign Ministry (although the distance between the Foreign Ministry and the Kiev railway station is one kilometer). Its head - Alexander works as a manager in a company that sells computers. The mother does not work because there are three children in the family: a 17-year-old daughter, a 14-year-old son and a 5-year-old Pasha. Each series is a finished story. The main place of action is the apartment of this family.
