It Can't Be!
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.
Casts & Crew
Mikhail Pugovkin
Nina Grebeshkova
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
Mikhail Svetin
Oleg Dal
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Mikhail Kokshenov
Natalya Seleznyova
Yevgeni Zharikov
Larisa Eryomina
Leonid Kuravlyov
Valentina Telichkina
Lyudmila Shagalova
Georgiy Vitsin
Savely Kramarov
Svetlana Kharitonova
Sergei Filippov
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Igor Yasulovich
Radner Muratov
Lev Polyakov
Eve Kivi
Gotlib Roninson
Yelena Volskaya
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Viktor Uralsky
Georgi Svetlani
Vladimir Gulyaev
Eduard Bredun
Viktor Filippov
Zoya Isayeva
Vladimir Ferapontov
Muza Krepkogorskaya
Nina Krachkovskaya
Valentina Ushakova
Anatoliy Obukhov
Nikolai Gorlov
Vitaly Leonov
Georgiy Yumatov
Klara Rumyanova
Anatoliy Kalabulin
Also Directed by Leonid Gayday
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Movie Details
A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.
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.
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