Don't Play the Fool
Не валяй дурака | |
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Directed by | Valeri Chikov [1] |
Produced by | Aleksei Shachnev |
Starring |
Mikhail Yevdokimov Lev Durov Valeri Zolotukhin |
Music by | Konstantin Shevelyov |
Cinematography | Timur Zelma |
Edited by | Galina Dyakonova |
Release dates | 1997 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Don't Play the Fool (Russian: Не валяй дурака ) is Russian comedy, parody of Valeri Chikov. It shows unlight relations between The USSR and The USA after Cold War with a tragicomic side.
Plot [2]
Americans have decided to make sure that in the villages of Arkhangelsk diamond deposit is indeed found, and was sent there a submarine under the command of veteran Black, who accompanied the convoys of the Allies during the 2nd World War. As a diversion to the bank was planted with an alcohol barrel (200 liters), caught the local blacksmith Philemon (Yevdokimov). On this occasion, staged festivities, which all the American submariners will gradually have been connected against their desire. The black veteran found his grandson, who was born in the family of Philemon.
During the holiday takes place on fire. In a panic, drunk people running away from the barn, where until then sang songs and drank alcohol, but Philemon, risking their lives, enters the burning barn and barrel rolls out of it. Barrel is empty. Barn burns down and falls on the background of the Russian Orthodox Church under the lyrical music.
Philemonwas sentenced to two years in prison for disturbing public order, at home he had confiscated all the weapons.
At the end of the film in the same village arrives Japanese submarine, and Philemon again catches a barrel of pure alcohol...
Cast [3]
- Mikhail Yevdokimov as Philemon
- Lev Durov as Grandfather
- Valeri Zolotukhin as Vanya Taratakin
- Olga Ostroumova as Polina
- Vladimir Kashpur as General
- Semyon Altov as member of Expedition
- Valeri Chikov
- Grigorii Siyatvinda as Vasya
- Tatiyana Kravchenko
- Alexander Pyatkov as Kutusov
- Sergei Agapitov as Pashka Goos
- Yuri Oleinikov
- Andrei Nikolaev
- Alexander Wigdorov
- Scott Kinninhaim
- Austin Ti Smot
- Kevin McGeer
References
External links
- Don't Play the Fool at the Internet Movie Database
- "Не валяй дурака...". kinopoisk.ru. Archived from the original on 2013-08-17. Retrieved 2013-07-30.