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A performance by the Moscow Satire Theatre, 1977, based on the play by Grigory Gorin. Director: Mark Rozovsky. Actors: Mikhail Derzhavin, Tatyana Egorova, Roman Tkachuk. Doctor of Science and Director of the Research Institute Andrei Andreevich Shchukin celebrates his 40th birthday. Suddenly, a stranger named Shchagin comes to his house. He says that Shchukin is actually him. And all the merits of the real Shchukin belong to him, Shchagin. And all this because they were mixed up in the maternity hospital. He begins to prove to the doctor and professor that all his successes are not the result of talent and abilities, but simply the care of his father, an academician. As a result of a long discussion, it turns out that Shchagin found the wrong Shchukin, since they were born in different cities.