The Big Exchange

The film takes place during the monetary reform of 1961. In the Soviet Union a hundred rubles turn into ten overnight. The reform does not cover copper coins. Prokhor Ignatievich manages a park of culture and recreation. He is an enterprising man. He thinks of making a profit from that gap. He wants to turn the big notes in his hands into copper change. He takes two men along for it. One is the driver Zhora Grakin. The other is Roland Babaskin, out of prison. The three set about collecting coins. The job tangles as it grows. The plan does not run as he hoped. The film tells it as a comedy. The money order of the period stands in the background. Vladimir Ilin and Andrei Ponomaryov appear in the eighty eight minute film, a Russian and American production Giorgi Shengelia finished in 1992.