Produced during the Khrushchev Thaw, the film became the Soviet box office leader of 1956 with a total of 48.64 million tickets sold.

To him, holiday fun has a different meaning, he imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the club's progress over the year and a lecturer speaking for 40 minutes about the possibility of life on the planet Mars.

They manage to trap Ogurtsov by any means necessary so that the acts can perform their scheduled pieces, and celebrate New Year's Eve as originally planned.

[3] All music is composed by Anatoly Lepin[11]The song «Любовь — это счастье» ("Love is a Happiness") sung by Gurchenko was not included in the film.

In 2006 Ryazanov made a sequel to the picture, called Carnival Night 2, or Fifty Years Later starring Alyona Babenko and Sergei Bezrukov.