Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika

Plot synopsis:
=== Segment "Workmate" ===
On a bus a boor and drunkard named Fedya takes a seat reserved for children and disabled persons and then refuses to let a young pregnant woman sit claiming that "she is neither a child nor handicapped". Shurik, who is riding on the same bus, puts on a pair of sunglasses, and pretends to be visually impaired. When Fedya is urged to let him sit in his seat, Shurik offers the seat to the pregnant woman. Fedya is enraged at being deceived and gets into a fight with Shurik. As a result, Fedya is arrested and sentenced to 15 days of Community service, Russian administrative arrest or simply '15 sutok' (15 days). Ironically, he is sent to serve his term to the same construction site where Shurik works part-time. The manager puts them on the same work crew. Fedya does not do his work properly, bullies Shurik, and plans to get revenge on the young student. When Shurik finally hits back, the two get involved in a Tom and Jerry-style chase throughout the construction site using building equipment and various materials as weapons. In the end Fedya is subdued and reeducated by Shurik.
==== Features ====
The policeman asks the crowd: 'Well, citizens – alcoholics, spongers, hooligans. Who wants to work?'
=== Segment "Déjà vu" ===
It's time for summer examinations at the University, and everyone is cramming for the exams. Shurik (and everyone else) is looking desperately for lecture notes and finally sees them in the hands of a girl on a streetcar, Lida, who is a student of the same University. As Shurik follows her reading the notebook over her shoulder, they become so deeply absorbed in reading the notes that Lida never looks up, instinctively assuming that Shurik is one of her female coeds. The two are completely engrossed in reading and never look at or speak to each other, following a sort of humorous pantomime.
They come into the girl's apartment and spend time there reading simultaneously with having a snack and resting, with the girl taking her clothes off, still completely unaware of each other's identity, then prepare to go back to the University. There Shurik is distracted from Lida's notebook by a fellow student and loses her as she walks in another direction. After passing the exam successfully, he is introduced to Lida by a mutual friend. Shurik does not recognize Lida but is enchanted by her. He walks her back home and, following an amusing incident involving a dog belonging to Lida's neighbors, finds himself in her apartment again, where he starts to feel as if he has been there before since he can guess where all the things are placed and all the "objects, scents and sounds" seem familiar to him. Lida assumes that he might be a telepathist and has an ability of precognition. She tells him to guess her wish that she has written on a piece of paper, "Find the teddy bear". Shurik then kisses her. Although he failed to guess the wish, the kiss evokes romantic feelings in both of them, and they decide to meet again after the next exam.
Meanwhile, another student tries to cheat his way through his Physics exam by using a concealed radio to communicate with another student, but has to dress up to an absurd degree to hide his crude equipment and attracts the examiner's attention by using radio jargon, but he seems to get away with it. However, the examiner promptly reveals a proper radio intercept suite in his bag, listens to the cheater call him a fool, and then activates a radio jammer before approaching the offender and blowing his cover. They both laugh at the disguise, and the student gets 5 (excellent) for his design (it is a technical faculty) and a 2 (fail) for the exam.
=== Segment "Operation Y" ===
A warehouse manager, trying to cover up his theft, hires three petty criminals nicknamed Fool (Балбес), Coward (Трус) and Pro (Бывалый) to stage a break-in. Their elaborate plan goes wrong when Shurik is asked by his landlady, an elderly woman nicknamed Grandma God's Dandelion (Бабушка божий одуванчик) who usually guards the warehouse, to babysit her granddaughter during her shift, and once that proves to be too much for him, to replace her while she takes care of the child. Surprised, Coward fails to neutralize the guard using a handkerchief soaked in chloroform as planned, putting himself to sleep instead. The culmination of the story is the "Warehouse Battle", involving Shurik and the criminals using various impromptu weapons such as musical instruments and rapiers. The segment ends as an agitated Baboushka arrives at the warehouse and finds Shurik and the trio lying on a floor asleep — Coward having fainted earlier on, Fool and Pro having been "rendered harmless" by Shurik, and Shurik himself having fallen asleep after accidentally wiping his face with the chloroform soaked handkerchief.

Tags: revenge

Review:
Hilarious!.
I love this movie, and the guy who plays Shurik is hilarious.
Much funnier than Jim Carey.
I want to see more of his movies.
Too bad he lived on the wrong side of the curtain for so many years.
And sadly, like all the best, he died young.
He should have tried to be more like Ted Kennedy.
And his side-kicks were hilarious as well.
A friend told me that they were famous Russian actors in their own right.
Just plane fun, light-hearted and simple.
Whether you speak Russian or not, it's worth it to have a look at this classic comedy collection.
It is a fascinating look into the Russian sense of humor, as it is universally loved in the former Eastern Bloc countries, and if you look at the ratings for US viewers, here in the West as well..
Great, most amusing soviet film..
It is one of those 'must' soviet films that any educated man should  see.
Most talented actors, really cleverly made script and all, and  also containing many words and phrases that got into lexicon.
Nikulin  as always geniusely acts both the facial expressions in the song  "Postoy Porovoz", and the ones in other scenes (like the fight with  Shurik).
I could say that the song alone is enough to watch it, even for those  who did not directly experience that kind of life, it would still cause  a sense of cheerful nostalgy.
Morgunov - also one of the most talented  and known soviet actors, for those who ever liked him - it is most  definitely one of his best pictures.
Few more can be said, I mean -  just watch it..
This feature actually consists of three half-hour-long story lines one after another, related only in that they all star the same hapless protagonist.
I read somewhere that the director took Charlie Chaplin as a model for his comedy, and the influence shows here, even to the point of the short-subject-length segments -- and especially in the first story.
That one is basically a pure slapstick comedy, drawing gags from the situation of the Sharik character (who actually ends up resembling Harold Lloyd in appearance and behavior more than Chaplin) working part time on a construction site, alongside the man who he caused to be working there as a sentence.
The second segment is the one I thought to be the greatest success, as it combines the visual humor (many sequences of which, throughout, would work without dialogue at all) with a well-tuned funny situation and good actor chemistry.
The third and titular segment is amusing as well, but perhaps get a little too involved in its own story.
Overall, it's funny material and recreates well what made the silent comedies of the short-subject era funny, if without the inspiration of an actual Chaplin on set..
stories.
Three stories about a young man - Shurik and his adventures.
for the fans of Soviet comedies from "60-"80 - nothing new.
for the viewer from East Europe, all familiar.
because the moral lessons, the romanticism , the gags - inspired by American mute comedies , Yuri Nikulin ,Aleksandr Demyanenko are pieces of a cinema who defines the Comunist period in profound sense.
and, maybe, this is the difference of perception between different European publics.the work site, the emotions beyound an exam.
the citizen lookout for protect the proprieties of the state are the small pieces defining a period, a political system and, sure, a kind of public..
Naive old comedy.
This naive old comedy is a landmark of Russian cinema.
The humor is mostly Charlie Chaplin style (cake in the face etc.), however many verbal jokes from this comedy have made it into everyday language.
There are three novels in this movie: one about a convict doing community service hand by hand with a student with orthogonal morale, another about college students cheating, and the last one about a trio of junks (the famous Russian comedians Nikulin, Vitsin, and Morgunov) staging a burglary to cover the real one.I would like to invite visitors to see pictures from the movie and watch a detailed trailer at RussArt.com.
Those who read Russian can find more materials useful: reviews, actor biographies, articles, etc.Pictures: http://russart.com/?moviepictures&mid=69 .
Trailer: http://russart.com/?movietrailer&mid=69 ..
You can find better, but perhaps not in Russian.
O.K., before I review this DVD (it's actually more than one "movie"), let me disclose a couple facts.
First, apart from the unparalleled works of Eisenstein, I am not a huge fan of Russian Cinema.
I find much of it ponderous, and overly bogged down in State approved propaganda.Operation "Y" or Operatsiya Y i drugiye priklyucheniya Shurika (Operation Y and other Shurik's Adventures) as it's known in Russian, is the most popular Soviet Era comedy, possibly the most popular Russian comedy of all time.
So, despite the double negative of Russian Slapstick, I had to give it a look.It's hard to hate Shurik's adventures, but if you're not a slapstick fan, they're not really going to fully win you over either.
Shurik is a young go-getter in the vein of Harold Lloyd's 'Glasses Guy' (Shurik is also bespectacled) and his Adventures fall somewhere between Charlie Chaplin and Benny Hill both chronologically (since it was released in 1965) and stylistically.
While the vignettes aren't as charming as Chaplin, they are, mercifully, less annoying than Hill, and thankfully, the Soviet propaganda while undeniably present is set to a very low pitch.
Not being a fan of the genre, I'll refrain from actually endorsing or cautioning about this film collection, but I will say, exhaust the Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd cannons (and perhaps the cartoons of Chuck Jones too) before moving on to these..
Comic Russian triple bill.
Once again Amazon Prime has come up trumps in delivering a high quality print of a film I'd never even heard of before watching.
OPERATION 'Y' & OTHER SHURIK'S ADVENTURES, despite the awkwardness of the title, is a light and breezy comedy anthology from Russia.
There are three tales here, all of them featuring Shurik as the main character, and actor Aleksandr Demyanenko is a delight in the role.
Shurik is a high energy character, geeky looking, but whose drive and enthusiasm makes for a likable protagonist.The stories are of differing quality and the first is by far the best.
This is a long-running battle of wits between rival workers on a building site; the whole episode is constructed around slapstick humour and as a result it's frequently hilarious, with good production values.
The inspiration is clearly the kind of physical comedy popular in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s and as a result this is a lot of fun.The second story starts off in the same vein with plenty of hilarious book-reading scenes in which the principal characters are joined at the hip.
It's light, vibrant, and funny, although less so when the story becomes a traditional love story later on.
The third story is about a pretend robbery and is less interesting, although still not bad.
I hope Prime open their archives to more Russian fare because this has provided an eye-opening experience for this viewer.