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Russian Video: The Diamond Arm (Movie)!

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This weekend we continue watching movies by Leonid Gaidai Russian outstanding director of comedy-movies.

The Diamond Arm was made in 1968, directed by slapstick director Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya. The Diamond Arm has become a Russian cult film. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 76,700,000 theatre admissions in the Soviet era.

The beginning:
The main character Semen Semenovich Gorbunkov (Yuri Nikulin) is sent abroad on a tourist trip on a cruise ship. During a walk in one eastern city he accidentally slipped and got dislocated arm. But it turns out, when he exclaimed “Damn!” because the word smugglers used as a password. Semen Semenovich lost consciousness and smugglers plastered bandage, packed with gold and diamonds on his arm…

Continue “The Diamond Arm” story we will watch here (with English subtitles):

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Russian Video: Ivan Vasilievich Changes Occupation (Movie)!

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Ivan Vasilievich Changes Occupation (Movie)Who is Ivan Vasilievich and why does he change occupation and what is so unusual in the changing occupation thing? You answer these questions if you know that Ivan Vasilievich is Russian Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) 1530-1584 and he has to change his occupation because… he accidentally got to Soviet Russia by Time Machine. If Ivan Vasilievich (Ivan the Terrible) liked it here and how to survive in the middle of 16th century even if you are tsar you’ll find out by watching this comedy based on a play by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Ivan Vasilievich changes occupation (Иван Васильевич меняет профессию) was made by upstanding Russian movie director Leonid Gaidai (our regular readers already watched several his movies) in 1973. Composer Aleksandr Zatsepin and lyrics for songs wrote Leonid Derbenev. In this movie we will meet again the same Shurik whom we like from movie “Kidnapping Caucasian Style (Shurik’s New Adventures)” So we highly recommend you to watch the video!

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Occupation
(Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future)

More about the movie Ivan Vasilievich changes occupation you’ll find in Wikipedia.

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Russian Video: Kidnapping Caucasian Style (Movie with English Subtitles)!

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Hello,

As always at weekends we will watch a full-length Russian movie with English subtitles. Today it will be a famous old Russian comedy movie “Kidnapping Caucasian Style (Shurik’s New Adventures)” (Кавказская пленница или Новые Приключения Шурика), 1967.

Our regular readers already got known Shurik (Шурик) a main character in another movie of an outstanding Russian movie director Leonid Gaidai “Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures” (Операция Ы и Другие приключения Шурика).

And yes in this romantic comedy we’ll meet again the comic trio of crooks Experienced, Coward and Fool. And now they will be again up to no good!

So lets watch: One of the best Russian comedies ever!

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Director: Leonid Gaidai

Cast:
Aleksandr Demyanenko as Shurik
Natalya Varley as Nina
Ruslan Akhmetov as Edik
Yuri Nikulin as Booby
Georgiy Vitsin as Coward
Yevgeni Morgunovas Experienced
Vladimir Etush as Comrade Saakhov
Frunzik Mkrtchyan as Nina’s uncle
Nina Grebeshkova as doctor
Mikhail Gluzsky as Hotel clerk
Georgi Millyar
Emmanuil Geller
Pyotr Repnin
N. Avaliani
Donara Mkrtchyan as D. Mkrtchyan

© Mosfilm, 1967.

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Russian Video: Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (Movie)!

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As usual at weekends we watch full-length Soviet/Russian movies with English subtitles. This weekend we are watching an old (made 1965) Russian comedy “Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures” (Операция Ы и Другие приключения Шурика).

The movie was made by outstanding Russian film director Leonid Gaidai. That was his third movie. We already watched: “Strictly Business” (Деловые люди) and Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross. Bootleggers (Пес Барбос и необыкновенный кросс).

“Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures” сonsists of 3 independent parts: ‘Workmate’ (Напарник), ‘Delusion’ (Наваждение) and ‘Operation Y’ (Операция «Ы»).

This time we’ll get know another Gaidai’s favorite character Shurik: some serious student, he wears glasses and looks like nerd but he…. Let’s better watch! And yes we’ll meet again our favorite personages: comic trio of crooks Experienced, Coward and Fool. And Shurik we’ll meet them too (in one of the novels).

© MOSFILM, 1965.

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Russian Video: Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross. Bootleggers (Movie)

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Hello,

Our regular readers already know the name of outstanding Russian comedy-movie director Leonid Gaidai (1923–1993). We already watched his remarkable screen version of O. Henry’s stories “The Roads We Take”, “Makes the Whole World Kin” and “The Ransom of Red Chief” – Strictly Business (Деловые люди), 1962. What we like very much!

Today we will watch his another early-made movie titled Absolutely Seriously (Совершенно серьёзно) (1961) where we meet his famous comic trio of crooks: Experienced, Coward and Fool – who brought him a great success and whom we’ll meet again and again in his others movies! They are always up to something no-good, and they always fail at their escapades. The movie was made in two segments:

“Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross” (Пёс Барбос и необычный кросс)

“Bootleggers” (Самогонщики)

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Cast:
Yury Nikulin as Fool
Georgy Vitsin as Coward
Evgeny Morgunov as Experienced

Have a good time and remember that laugh prolongs your life! 😉
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Russian video: Strictly Business (Деловые люди)!

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Hello,

Our regular readers already know that we are watching full-time Soviet or Russian movies with English subtitles on Russian Video from Russia at weekends.

Today we start getting know an outstanding Soviet movie director Leonid Gaidai and his favorite great actors Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin, Rostislav Plyatt.

We’ll watch a movie “Strictly Business” (Деловые люди), Mosfilm, 1962. Best screen version of O.Henry.

The film has three parts, each of them a screen version of “The Roads We Take“, “Makes the Whole World Kin” and “The Ransom of Red Chief“.

Lets watch “Strictly Business” with English subtitles.

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Director: Leonid Gaidai.
Writers: Leonid Gaidai (writer), O. Henry (stories).
Release Date: 1962 (Soviet Union).
Genre: Comedy / Drama.

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Cast.

Part 1. The Roads We Take (Дороги, которые мы выбираем).
Vladimir Pitsek as machinist
Vladlen Paulus as Shark Dodson
Alexander Shvorin as Bob Tidbol
V. Gromov as Williams

Part 2. Makes the Whole World Kin (Родственные души).
Yury Nikulin as robber
Rostislav Plyatt as

Part 3. The Ransom of Red Chief (Вождь краснокожих).
Georgy Vitsin as Sam
Alexei Smirnov as Bill Driscoll
Sergei Tikhonov as Johnny Dorset
Georgy Millyar as Old Dorset

© Mosfilm, 1962.

Hope you enjoyed this movie as much as we did!

Have a beautiful weekend,
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