It Can't Be!
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Directed by | Leonid Gaidai |
Written by | Vladlen Bahnov |
Based on |
«Crime and Punishment», «Fun Adventure» and «Wedding event» by Mikhail Zoshchenko |
Starring |
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Cinematography | Sergei Poluyanov |
Distributed by |
«Mosfilm». Experimental Creative Association |
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Running time | 92 min. |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
«It Can't Be!» (Russian: Ne mozhet byt!) - is a Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.[1] It consists of three short stories, shot on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko comedy «Crime and Punishment», «Fun Adventure» and «Wedding event».
Crime and Punishment
Plot
In the first novel describes the complexity of the shop manager Gorbushkin living in Soviet times, the end of the 1920s on unearned income. Being called to the investigator, he thoroughly believes that this challenge will not bring anything good. These thoughts go to his wife and brother-Anna Vasilyevna, who, in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of property urgently sell everything that was acquired by «back-breaking» labor. In addition, Anna V. hastily divorce with the main character and married a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And he Gorbushkin, which only call witnesses (a week before it still got and put) in a good mood back home.
Cast
- Mikhail Pugovkin — Gorbushkin, store owner
- Nina Grebeshkova — Anna Vasilyevna, Gorbushkin's wife
- Vyacheslav Nevinny — Gorbushkin's brother-in-law
- Mikhail Svetin — Vitaly Borisovich, Gorbushkin's neighbour
- Radner Muratov — militiaman
- Lev Polyakov — investigator
- Natalya Krachkovskaya - Lelik wife, shopper paintings
- Igor Yasulovich — Lelik, buyer paintings
- Georgiy Svetlani — beer lover
- Viktor Uralsky — little man with a pig
- Vladimir Gulyaev — the one-eyed buyer-furniture
- Eduard Bredun — assistant buyer of furniture
Fun Adventure
Plot
The following short story of the film shows the intricacies of extramarital relations. Heading into the weekend supposedly to work, but in reality to his mistress, and sometimes hard to imagine that her husband's mistress could be lover lover friend, neighbor, friend and lover in the communal - a lover of your own wife. In the end, all six characters is purely coincidental, with interesting circumstances intersect together and gathered around the table, trying to find a way out of this situation, but in the end did not need and did not come. In any case, such a conclusion can be drawn from rolling in extreme caricature dispute sixes at the table.
Cast
- Oleg Dahl — Anatoly (aka Anatole) Barygin-Amurskiy
- Svetlana Kryuchkova — Zinaida (it Zinulya), Nicholas's wife
- Mikhail Kokshenov — Sophia's neighbor
- Natalya Seleznyova — Tatiana (aka Tanya) Barygin-Amurskya, Anatoly's wife
- Yevgeni Zharikov — Nicholas (aka Coca), Zinaida's husband
- Larisa Eryomina — Sophia (aka Sofochka), Zinaida's girlfriend and «former ballerina of noblewomen»
- Zoya Isayeva — Sophia's neighbor, wash clothes in the basin
- Elena Volskaya — flower-girl
- Georgi Yumatov — passer-by with a bulldog
Wedding event
In the final novel by the young man, Vladimir Zavitushkin, fails to offer a hand and heart, he comes to his own wedding, which can not find a bride - before they met only on the street, and he memorized it in winter clothes. Attempts to discreetly find out who of the women present his future wife, lead to unpredictable consequences - the bridegroom takes the bride (and she does have a daughter (and not one) - very little) for her mother.
Cast
- Leonid Kuravlyov — Vladimir Zavitushkin, groom
- Valentine Telichkina — Catherine, Zavitushkin's bride
- Lyudmila Shagalova — mother of Catherine
- Georgy Vitsin — father of Catherine
- Savely Kramarov — Sergei Ivanovich (aka Seryoga), Zavitushkin's friend, womanizer and heartthrob
- Svetlana Kharitonova - Elmira, Catherine's girlfriend, always says: «enchanting!»
- Sergey Filippov — singer
- Natalya Krachkovskaya — 1st guest
- Igor Yasulovich — 1st guest
- Eve Kiwi — wife of Ivan Izrailevich
- Gottlieb Roninson — Ivan Izrailevich, one of the guests
Locations and props
Crime and Punishment
- Gorbushkin's homeownership — Astrakhan, Jean Jaurès Street.
- The song «Ruins people not beer» — Astrakhan, «Tatar-Bazaar».
- The church, which is seen in the background behind the fece Gorbushkin's homeownership — Astrakhan, Church of St. John Chrysostom. Subsequently, at the church bell tower was restored.
- The car with the detainees traveling on the only place in the city so far (at the beginning of 2015) preserved real ancient cobblestones (the same place and the same church featured in the movie «My Friend Ivan Lapshin»).
- «The prosecutor's office» — Astrakhan, Kuybyshev's Street, Gubin's House. During the filming there was Astrakhan Palace of Pioneers A.I. Gubin's House, and the window of the investigator - Astrakhan Kremlin.
Fun Adventure
- The song about Cupid — Astrakhan, Nikolskaya Street. During the filming, it was called Rosa Luxemburg's Street.
- The fall cat from eave — Astrakhan, Fioletov's Street.
- Quay where Anatole bought flowers — Astrakhan, promenade «Seventeenth marina».
- Boarding the bus Anatole and Zinaida — Astrakhan, Nikolskaya Street.
Wedding event
- Search the bride's house — Moscow, 1st Obydenskiy lane. In the background - Church of Elijah the Prophet everyday.
- The house of the bride — Moscow, Shchepochkina's home (Spasopeskovsky lane, 6). Also seen in the picture Church of the Transfiguration of Our Savior on the Sands.
References
- ↑ "Не может быть! :: Мосфильм". cinema.mosfilm.ru. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
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