Chiến dịch Y và những cuộc phiêu lưu khác của Shurik
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (Russian: Операция „Ы" и другие приключения Шурика) is a 1965 Soviet slapstick comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, starring Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin and Yevgeny Morgunov. The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate" (Напарник, Naparnik), "Déjà vu" (Наваждение, Navazhdeniye) and "Operation Y"[1] (Операция „Ы").[2][3][verification needed] The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.[2]
Directed by Leonid Gaidai
Written by Moris Slobodskoy
Yakov Kostyukovsky
Leonid Gaidai
Starring Aleksandr Demyanenko
Natalya Seleznyova
Yuri Nikulin
Georgy Vitsin
Yevgeny Morgunov
Music by Aleksandr Zatsepin
Cinematography Konstantin Brovin
Editing by Valentina Yankovskaya
Distributed by Mosfilm
Release date(s) August 16, 1965
Running time 90 min.
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Preceded by Bootleggers
Followed by Kidnapping, Caucasian Style * The film was shot in Leningrad, Odessa, Yalta, Mosfilm pavilions, Sviblovo district of Moscow and near the Moscow State University. The filming was started on July 27, 1964. In October bad weather in Moscow hindered completing the outdoors scenes, so the shooting was relocated in Odessa and was complete on November 22. The rest of the scenes were shot in Moscow and Leningrad. The lack of snow offered much difficulty filming the third episode about the burglary of a warehouse on a snowy winter night. In spring 1965 the editing of the film was mostly complete. The remaining short location shooting was made in Yalta.[4] * The film's plot is based loosely on a screenplay written by Moris Slobodskoy and Yakov Kostyukovsky entitled Light-headed Stories (Russian: Несерьёзные истории); it consisted of two novels about comical adventures of a young student Vladik Arkov, clumsy but very decent. A character of a "good guy" was popular in the Soviet art of that time, so Gaidai decided to follow this tendency shooting his next film. The story line was modified and the additional novel was written.[4] * More than hundred actors took a screen test for the role of the student Vladik, but Gaidai was not satisfied with any of them. He had his own personality in mind as a prototype of the character, so when he first saw a photo of Aleksandr Demyanenko and then met him in person, he noticed the likeness to himself in the actor, and believed that the humble Demyanenko in glasses would be able to portray the awkward, naive and honest student best of all.[4] * Initially the name of the main character was Vladik (short for Vladislav). Later the director, impressed by Demyanenko, decided to name the characted after the actor (Shurik, as well as Sasha, is a short form of the name Aleksandr).[4] * Among those who took part in the audition for the main role was actor Valery Nosik. Eventually he appeared in the film as a student-gambler. Mikhail Pugovkin, who played the role of the construction site manager, was initially cast for the role of Fedya. * At the session of the Art Council after the preliminary watching of the film critics panned the acting of Morgunov and Vitsin, while praising Nikulin, and were insisting on deleting scenes where Alexei Smirnov appears in blackface. However, no changes were made.[4]
Reception
The film was enormously popular; it became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965 having 69.6 million viewers. The novel Déjà vu, based on a story from a Polish magazine,[4] won the Grand Prix Wawel Silver Dragon at the Kraków Film Festival in Poland in 1965.[2] The film became a fount of quotes for Soviet/Russian people.