As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram (film)

As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram
Directed by Viktor Titov
Written by Viktor Titov
Starring Yevgeny Leonov
Mikhail Gluzsky
Vladimir Basov
Rolan Bykov
Zinovy Gerdt
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Music by Nikita Bogoslovsky
Cinematography Georgy Rerberg
Production
company
Release dates
19 August 1972
Running time
72 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram[1] (Russian: Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров[2], translit. Ehali v tramvae Ilf i Petrov) is a 1972 Soviet film directed by Viktor Titov.

Plot

The film is a series of short comedies, based on humorous anecdotes, stories and notebooks of famous satirist writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. These comedies describe the everyday life of Moscow and Moscow's citizens in the 20s - 30s of the twentieth century; the film uses a lot of newsreels of the time.

Comedy's subjects are various as life itself. For example, a clerk Kapitulov is constantly scaring his wife and colleagues with his poor health. As a result, all the household chores is shouldered on his wife, and his colleagues at work do all Kapitulov's duties, while he sleeps nearby, sitting on a chair ...

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