Leonid Gaidai
1923 - 1993Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Leonid Gayday
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Mikhail Pugovkin
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
The Diamond Arm
Leonid Gayday
Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova
In the southern town, a gang of "currency traders" is operating, led by the Chief and his assistant Kozodoyev. A modest Soviet clerk and an exemplary family man Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov goes on a foreign cruise on a motor ship, on which Kozodoyev also sailed, who must pick up diamonds in one of the eastern cities and transport them in a plaster hand. But due to a misunderstanding, instead of a swindler, an unsuspecting Gorbunkov falls in the appointed place, and a precious plaster is imposed on him. That's where it all starts...
The Diamond Arm
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Leonid Gayday
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley
Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
12 Chairs
Leonid Gayday
Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
12 Chairs
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Leonid Gayday
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Yuriy Yakovlev
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Самогонщики
Leonid Gayday
Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin
This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...
Bootleggers
It Can't Be!
Leonid Gayday
Mikhail Pugovkin, Nina Grebeshkova
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
It Can't Be!
Пёс Барбос и необычный кросс
Eduard Abalov, Leonid Gayday
Georgiy Vitsin, Yuriy Nikulin
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Absolutely Seriously
Vladimir Semakov, Leonid Gayday
Anatoli Papanov, Sergei Filippov
Сергей Филиппов проведет нас по коридорам киностудии, где снимается комедийный альманах. Там творится полный кавардак, но не меньше его в новеллах альманаха, самый известный из которых — «Пес Барбос и необычный кросс»…
Sovershenno seryozno
Tulitikkuja lainaamassa
Leonid Gayday, Risto Orko
Evgeni Leonov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
For the Matches
