Description:

A bored, rich American goes to Russia with his younger cowboy brothers and offers a Russian bloke a deal: he'll make him rich as long as he never washes even once for 15 years. Based on the story recorded by Boris Shergin.

The original story was published in 1936 as part of a collection of tales from the northern Arkhangelsk region and can be read here. It was adapted in the early 1990s and is representative of the extremely positive views of America and its people in Russia at the time.

There were two versions of the film made - the 27-minute one above and also a shorter "theatrical" 25-minute one in which certain scenes were cut out (particularly the bath scene near the end).