It Can't Be!
Film poster
Directed byLeonid Gaidai
Written byVladlen Bahnov
Leonid Gaidai
Based onCrime and Punishment, Fun Adventure and Wedding Event
by Mikhail Zoshchenko
Starring
CinematographySergei Poluyanov
Music byAleksandr Zatsepin
Distributed by
  • Mosfilm
  • Experimental Creative Association
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
92 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

It Can't Be! (Russian: Не может быть!, romanized: Ne mozhet byt'!) is a 1975 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.[1] It consists of three short stories, based on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko: 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 will not bring anything good. These thoughts go to his wife and brother-in-law. 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 hastily divorces with the main character and marries a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And Gorbushkin, who is only called as a witness (a week before he still got arrested), returns in a good mood back home.

Cast

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 DahlAnatoly (a.k.a. Anatole) Barygin-Amurskiy
  • Svetlana KryuchkovaZinaida (a.k.a. Zinulya), Nicholas's wife
  • Mikhail KokshenovSophia's neighbor
  • Natalya SeleznyovaTatiana (a.k.a. Tanya) Barygin-Amurskya, Anatoly's wife
  • Evgeny ZharikovNicholas (a.k.a. Coca), Zinaida's husband
  • Larisa EryominaSophia (a.k.a. Sofochka), Zinaida's friend and «former ballerina of noblewomen»
  • Zoya Isayeva — Sophia's neighbor, wash clothes in the basin
  • Elena Volskaya — flower-girl
  • Georgi Yumatovpasser-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, where he can not find a bride - before they met only on the street, and he memorized her in winter clothes. Attempts to discreetly find out who of the women present is 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

Soundtrack

External videos
video icon It's not beer that spoils people
The beer seller knows his work.
External videos
video icon Black horseshoes
The wedding singer performs while Zavitushkin tries to recognize his bride.
TranslationOriginal titleTransliterated titlePerformer
It's not beer that spoils people«Губит людей не пиво»Gubit lyudei ne pivoVyacheslav Nevinny
Cupid«Купидон»KupidonOleg Dal
Black horseshoes«Чёрные подковы»Chyornye podkovyRobert Mushkambaryan
Everything is possible«Всё может быть»Vsyo mozhet byt'Oleg Anofriyev
At the samovar, me and my Masha«У самовара я и моя Маша»U samovara ya i moya Mashainstrumental ensemble

References

  1. "Не может быть! :: Мосфильм". cinema.mosfilm.ru. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
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