Zigzag of Luck (1968)

Зигзаг удачи

A provincial photographer wins a fortune in the state lottery, and his colleagues decide part of it belongs to them.

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Year
1968
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Starring
Yevgeny Leonov, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Vitsin, Nikolai Parfyonov
Genre
Comedy
Running time
1 h 26 min
Language
Russian · no official English subtitles (YouTube machine translation only)
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Volodya Oreshnikov, a photographer at a small-town studio, buys a lottery bond and wins 10,000 roubles. The trouble is that he paid for it with money borrowed from the staff mutual-aid fund.

Suddenly everyone at the studio has an opinion about whose money it really is, and the argument shows the best and worst in all of them.

An early comedy by Eldar Ryazanov, written with his long-time partner Emil Braginsky, set around the New Year holidays.

Did you know?

  • It was written by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, the team behind Office Romance and Garage.
  • Yevgeny Leonov plays the photographer Oreshnikov.

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