Hello, Fools!
| Hello, Fools! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Eldar Ryazanov |
| Produced by | Leonid Bitz |
| Written by |
Eldar Ryazanov Aleksei Timm |
| Starring |
Tatyana Drubich Slava Polunin Tatyana Dogileva Boris Shcherbakov |
| Music by | Andrey Petrov |
| Cinematography |
Vladimir Nakhabtsev Pavel Lebeshev Vadim Alisov |
Production company |
film studio "Luch" |
Release dates | 29 December 1996 |
Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Hello, Fools![1] (Russian: Привет, дуралеи![2], translit. Privet, duralei!) is a 1996 russian film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film is a fantastical melodrama and comedy.
Plot
...Jura Kablukov is cheerful, kind, but very unlucky man. He works washer of historical monuments in Moscow, together with his friend, Fedor, folk craftsman, spoiled by the attention of women. Kablukov divorced and his ex-wife, Svetlana, a millionaire and a fashion hostess agency, wants to evict he from his apartment.
Some time ago Kablukov has dreaming: he, Jura Kablukov, is the french jeweler Auguste Derulen, who lives with his wife- beauty Polina in Moscow during the October Revolution. On the eve of the search (and in fact - a brazen robbery) committed by "revolutionary" soldiers and sailors, Auguste and Polina hidden gold and jewelry into a statue adorning the walls of their apartment.
Drop happening even more strange event. Jura met with Ksenia, sweet and kind girl, but very scattering. Ksenia catastrophically quickly loses vision, and because of this, constantly gets into trouble. Ksenia as two drops of water similar to the jeweler's wife out Jura's dream, and it soon becomes clear that she is a descendant of the family Derulen.
Thus, it appears that the Jura's dream is prophetic; events recorded in the dream really took place many years ago. On the advice of Fedor, experienced Kablukov's friend, friends begin to search for treasures that are still immured in the statue, which is in the Ksenia's apartment...
Cast
- Tatyana Drubich - Ksenia Zasypkina/Polina Derulen
- Slava Polunin - Jura Kablukov/Auguste Derulen (voice by Andrey Myagkov)
- Tatyana Dogileva - Svetlana, the former Jura Kablukov's wife, a millionaire
- Boris Shcherbakov - Fedor, driver, gunner and folk craftsman
- Alexander Schirvindt - leader of the Social-Socialist party, is a clear parody of both Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky
- Olga Volkova - ophthalmologist
- Vyacheslav Kulakov - Tolik, Svetlana's driver
- Alexander Pashutin - drunk revolutionary officer from Jura Kablukov's dream
- Andrey Smolyakov - Volodya, bodyguard
- Sergei Stepanchenko - Stepan, bodyguard
- Anatoliy Rudenko - Mitrofan, Jura Kablukov's son (acting debut)
- Ruslan Akhmetov - customer
- Alexey Buldakov - foreman from Ukraine
- Nikolai Garo - Ksenia Zasypkina's unlucky admirer
- Nikita Pomerantcev - Ksenia Zasypkina's unlucky admirer
- Yan Tsapnik - real estate agent
- Eldar Ryazanov - Nicholas Timofeevich, director of the bookstore