A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

小市民》是高尔基的第一部话剧作品，创作于1901年（也是在这一年他写了他那首著名的《海燕》）。当时俄国正处于大革命的前夕，沙皇封建体制面临土崩瓦解。高尔基敏锐地洞察到在这山雨欲来的社会动荡生活中，不同阶级的人们的内心冲突和对于时下社会不确定性的惶惑。剧中的小市民别斯谢苗夫胆小、庸碌，只求安分守己地过日子，但生活的规迹并不如愿。养子却给他带来了生活的希望。该剧通过描写父子两代人的冲突，揭露了资产阶级保守派与自由主义者的矛盾，是一部反映社会转型期生活，深入刻画、描写小市民阶层与无产阶级思想冲突的现实主义戏剧，也塑造了俄国文学中第一个以新的精神面貌出现的工人形象——尼尔。当时的高尔基33岁，他这部风格独特又饱含激情的作品一上演就引起了剧坛的轰动，受到热烈欢迎。无论是回顾高尔基的创作生涯还是俄罗斯的文学艺术史，《小市民》都是不能不提到的重要作品。

2004 Russian comedy film directed by Aleksandr Muratov

本片根据列昂尼德·费拉托夫所做诗体民间故事《好兵射手非多特》改编。原作曾由列·费拉托夫本人出演同名电视评书（1988），备受好评。
本片非动画片！央视所播同名动画片拍摄于2008年，查阅该条目请移步