Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

Операция «Ы» и другие приключения Шурика

Three comic stories about Shurik, a polite and clumsy student, including a famous fake warehouse robbery.

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Year
1965
Director
Leonid Gaidai
Starring
Alexander Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Mikhail Pugovkin
Genre
Comedy
Running time
1 h 35 min
Language
Russian · no official English subtitles (YouTube machine translation only)
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Shurik is a student with glasses, good manners and terrible luck. In the first story he fights a huge bully on a construction site. In the second he studies for an exam with a girl so intently that neither notices the other.

In the third, a warehouse manager hires three crooks to fake a robbery and hide his own theft, and Shurik, working as a night watchman, gets in the way.

Leonid Gaidai's comic timing makes this one of the funniest Soviet films; many of its lines are still quoted every day.

Did you know?

  • It was the most watched film in the USSR in 1965.
  • It introduced the character Shurik, who returned in Kidnapping, Caucasian Style.
  • The music is by Alexander Zatsepin.

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