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Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures

Original title: Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika
  • 1965
  • TV-G
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
16K
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Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
SlapstickComedyCrimeDramaRomance

Three stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.Three stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.Three stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.

  • Director
    • Leonid Gaidai
  • Writers
    • Leonid Gaidai
    • Yakov Kostyukovskiy
    • Moris Slobodskoy
  • Stars
    • Aleksandr Demyanenko
    • Mikhail Pugovkin
    • Aleksei Smirnov
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.4/10
    16K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Leonid Gaidai
    • Writers
      • Leonid Gaidai
      • Yakov Kostyukovskiy
      • Moris Slobodskoy
    • Stars
      • Aleksandr Demyanenko
      • Mikhail Pugovkin
      • Aleksei Smirnov
    • 17User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Aleksandr Demyanenko
    Aleksandr Demyanenko
    • Shurik
    Mikhail Pugovkin
    Mikhail Pugovkin
    • Construction director (segment "Naparnik")
    Aleksei Smirnov
    Aleksei Smirnov
    • Fedya (segment "Naparnik")…
    Vladimir Basov
    Vladimir Basov
    • Policeman (segment "Naparnik")
    Emmanuil Geller
    Emmanuil Geller
    • Passenger With Umbrella (segment "Naparnik")
    Rina Zelyonaya
    Rina Zelyonaya
    • Bus Passenger (segment "Naparnik")
    Viktor Uralskiy
    Viktor Uralskiy
    • Cook (segment "Naparnik")
    Guseyn Akhundov
    • Bus Passenger (segment "Naparnik")
    • (as G. Akhundov)
    Valentina Berezutskaya
    Valentina Berezutskaya
    • Bus Passenger (segment "Naparnik")
    Svetlana Ageeva
    Svetlana Ageeva
    • (segment "Naparnik")
    Natalya Seleznyova
    Natalya Seleznyova
    • Lida (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    Vladimir Rautbart
    Vladimir Rautbart
    • Professor (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    Viktor Pavlov
    Viktor Pavlov
    • Dub (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    Valeriy Nosik
    Valeriy Nosik
    • The Gambler Student (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    Georgiy Georgiu
    Georgiy Georgiu
    • Neighbour (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    • (as V. Georgiu)
    Natalya Gitserot
    Natalya Gitserot
    • Neighbour (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    • (as N. Gitserot)
    Zoya Fyodorova
    Zoya Fyodorova
    • Aunt Zoya (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    • (as Z. Fyodorova)
    Lyudmila Kovalets
    Lyudmila Kovalets
    • (segment "Navazhdeniye")
    • (as L. Kovalets)
    • Director
      • Leonid Gaidai
    • Writers
      • Leonid Gaidai
      • Yakov Kostyukovskiy
      • Moris Slobodskoy
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    7OlegSinitsin

    Naive old comedy

    This naive old comedy is a landmark of Russian cinema. The humor is mostly Charlie Chaplin style (cake in the face etc.), however many verbal jokes from this comedy have made it into everyday language. There are three novels in this movie: one about a convict doing community service hand by hand with a student with orthogonal morale, another about college students cheating, and the last one about a trio of junks (the famous Russian comedians Nikulin, Vitsin, and Morgunov) staging a burglary to cover the real one.

    I would like to invite visitors to see pictures from the movie and watch a detailed trailer at RussArt.com. Those who read Russian can find more materials useful: reviews, actor biographies, articles, etc.

    Pictures: http://russart.com/?moviepictures&mid=69 .

    Trailer: http://russart.com/?movietrailer&mid=69 .
    Kirpianuscus

    stories

    Three stories about a young man - Shurik and his adventures. for the fans of Soviet comedies from "60-"80 - nothing new. for the viewer from East Europe, all familiar. because the moral lessons, the romanticism , the gags - inspired by American mute comedies , Yuri Nikulin ,Aleksandr Demyanenko are pieces of a cinema who defines the Comunist period in profound sense. and, maybe, this is the difference of perception between different European publics.the work site, the emotions beyound an exam. the citizen lookout for protect the proprieties of the state are the small pieces defining a period, a political system and, sure, a kind of public.
    7maccas-56367

    First Soviet film experience and didn't disappoint!

    My first time watching a Soviet film and I enjoyed it. It was certainly unique and unlike anything I have watched before; despite reminding me a little of other comedies. Mr Bean, Chaplin, The Monkees - these all came to mind at moments during the film.

    Of course, 'Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures' is incredibly "Russian" too and showcases some of that unique Russian humour. It actually feels more like 3 episodes, as opposed to an actual movie. It works though, and the runtime flies by quickly as a result.

    Each segment features the main character Shurik getting himself in various predicaments. It's 100% slapstick. Not all the humour translated across to this Australian viewer, but I still laughed out loud more than once.

    By far the best 'segment' is the middle one titled "Deja Vu". It felt ahead of its time and was incredibly intelligent. A wonderful showcase of slapstick comedy that makes it worth the watch alone.
    7hte-trasme

    "Y" not?

    This feature actually consists of three half-hour-long story lines one after another, related only in that they all star the same hapless protagonist. I read somewhere that the director took Charlie Chaplin as a model for his comedy, and the influence shows here, even to the point of the short-subject-length segments -- and especially in the first story. That one is basically a pure slapstick comedy, drawing gags from the situation of the Sharik character (who actually ends up resembling Harold Lloyd in appearance and behavior more than Chaplin) working part time on a construction site, alongside the man who he caused to be working there as a sentence.

    The second segment is the one I thought to be the greatest success, as it combines the visual humor (many sequences of which, throughout, would work without dialogue at all) with a well-tuned funny situation and good actor chemistry. The third and titular segment is amusing as well, but perhaps get a little too involved in its own story.

    Overall, it's funny material and recreates well what made the silent comedies of the short-subject era funny, if without the inspiration of an actual Chaplin on set.
    michael_palin

    Great, most amusing soviet film.

    It is one of those 'must' soviet films that any educated man should see. Most talented actors, really cleverly made script and all, and also containing many words and phrases that got into lexicon. Nikulin as always geniusely acts both the facial expressions in the song "Postoy Porovoz", and the ones in other scenes (like the fight with Shurik). I could say that the song alone is enough to watch it, even for those who did not directly experience that kind of life, it would still cause a sense of cheerful nostalgy. Morgunov - also one of the most talented and known soviet actors, for those who ever liked him - it is most definitely one of his best pictures. Few more can be said, I mean - just watch it.

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    • Trivia
      The casting started on 1 June 1964. Searching for the protagonist proved to be the most difficult. Leonid Gaidai looked for someone like himself and over 100 actors auditioned, including Oleg Vidov, Vsevolod Abdulov, Vitali Solomin, Evgeny Petrosyan, Sergey Nikonenko, Evgeniy Zharikov, Gennadi Korolkov, Ivan Bortnik, Valeriy Nosik (who appears in the movie in a smaller role), Aleksandr Zbruev and Andrey Mironov was in talks. The art committee recommended Nosik although Leonid Gaidai himself had doubts. After incidentally seeing a picture of Aleksandr Demyanenko, Gaidai left for Leningrad on 11 July for personal talks that proved to be successful. Demyanenko later said, "I realized the film was bound to be a success as soon as I read the script of 'Operatsiya Y'. No films like that were made in the USSR at the time."
    • Quotes

      The Coward (segment Operatsiya Y): Tell us, please, this action... or... to put it better... operation...

      The Booby (segment Operatsiya Y): Y. Operation Y.

      S.D. Petukhov, Warehouse Director (segment Operatsiya Y): Why Y? Why Y?

      The Booby (segment Operatsiya Y): So that no one could guess.

      S.D. Petukhov, Warehouse Director (segment Operatsiya Y): Idiot!

    • Alternate versions
      Segment "Obsession" was also edited into and black-and-white short film Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965), which was submitted to several film festivals and eventually won a Silver Dragon at Krakow Film Festival.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Other Day 1961-2003: Our Era: Namedni 1965 (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      Postoy, parovoz
      Performed by Yuriy Nikulin and Georgiy Vitsin

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    • Release date
      • August 16, 1965 (Soviet Union)
    • Country of origin
      • Soviet Union
    • Official site
      • Mosfilm (Russia)
    • Language
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • 'I' operatsiyasi va Shurikning boshqa sarguzashtlari
    • Filming locations
      • Moscow State University, Vorobievy Hills, Moscow, Russia
    • Production company
      • Mosfilm
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $19,314,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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