Waar is Kameraad Mioussoff?

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Где вы, месье Миуссов ("Where are you, Monsieur Miussov") is a Russian comedy in two acts by Valentin Katayev (1897-1986) [1].

A play about Zaitsev, a worker doing repair work for a Moscow nursery, who goes to a rest home called Les Tournesols to meet a patient there, comrade Mioussov, so that he can sign a delivery receipt for 50 kilograms of white enamel paint. The comedy is based on a misunderstanding over obtaining the privilege of staying for twenty-four hours in this renowned health establishment, and the subterfuges Zaitsev goes to stay there.

Translated into French as Je veux voir Mioussov in 1965, and filmed as a TV movie of the same name in 1980.[2]

Translated into English as I Want to See Mioussov

Translated into Afrikaans s Waar is Kameraad Mioussoff? by Mariechen Naude, and adapted for radio by Driaan Engelbrecht in 1991.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492651/

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Je_veux_voir_Mioussov.html?id=2WhvwQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y