Aleksandr Demyanenko and Natalya Seleznyova in Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965) Movie |
Operation Y and Shurik’s
Other Adventures (1965) is a Soviet slapstick
comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai in 1965. The film is starred by Aleksandr
Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Georgy Vistin
and others. Opertion Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures (1965) film has three
independent segments as like the first one is ‘Wrokmate’, the second one is ‘Déjà
vu’ and the third and last one is ‘Operation Y’.
Aleksandr Demyanenko
plays his role in the film as the lead character. Cause, he leads in every
segment of the film.
Aleksandr Demyanenko and Natalya Seleznyova in Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965) Movie |
‘Workmate’
This segment is about
teaching and training to a drunkard named Fedya. The chase like Tom and Jerry
is started from a bus between Shurik and Fedya. The drunkard takes a seat
reserved for children and disabled persons but he does not give this seat to a pregnant
woman. Shurik, a student pretends him as visually impaired and takes the seat
from him and gives it to the pregnant woman. From there, their chasing is
started. Russian administrative (Police) arrest him and sentence for 15 days
for rehabilitation in a construction site where Shurik works part time along
with the study and Shurik is recruited as his trainer. The last scenes of the
segment are about comedy performances. But Fedya gets a good training from
Shurik through chasing activities.
Aleksandr Demyanenko and Natalya Seleznyova in Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965) Movie |
‘Déjà Vu’
Aleksandr Demyanenko
and Natalya Seleznyova lead in this segment playing role as Shurik and Lida.
Most of the scenes are comedy but there are some romantic comedy scenes in the
last few sequences. This is a totally different kind of romantic comedy scene.
Shurik and Lida both of them study in the same university. But they do not know
each other. It is the examination time. So, all the students are trying hard to
collect class lectures and notes. Shurik is finding a lot to read the notes but
is not getting. At last he looks the notes to Lida and follows her reading the
notebook over her shoulder from the streetcar to her house. They become so
deeply absorbed in reading that no one looks at each other or speaks without humorous
pantomime. They take snack and rest in bed. Even they are so deeply absorbed in
reading that they do not notice them that they are in undressing. Lida assumes
him as her female coed Ira. They prepare to return university and Shurik is interrupted
by his fellow. After examination, Shurik looks at her as if for the first time
and falls in love and latter introduce with Lida by his fellow. Shurik and Lida
comes again Lida’s house and as if he has been there before. Lida has believed
him as telepathist but at last tests him to find her wish. But Shurik kisses
her considering it was her wish. Though her wish was to find ‘teddy bear’, Lida
and Shurik are evoked in romantic feelings by the kiss. After that they decide
to meet after their exam. There is another scene in the segment of copying in
the examination of a student. But the professor finds his cheating and he fails
in the exam though he has got 5 for the radio instrument design by whom he was
copying in the exam.
Aleksandr Demyanenko and Natalya Seleznyova in Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965) Movie |
‘Operation Y’
The last segment of the
film is ‘Operation Y’. It’s an operation of stealing goods from a warehouse by
three potty criminals nicknamed ‘Fool’, Coward’ and ‘Pro’ but they fail to do
their work. Their plans are failed to neutralize the guard soaked a
handkerchief with chloroform. In every night, the woman called God’s Dandlion
guards the warehouse but Shurik is replaced before the criminals come that
night. Shurik prevents them unknowingly by chloroform, rapiers and harmless
thing but he also soaks unknowingly the handkerchief mixed with chloroform and
all the three criminals and he lay on a floor sleep. The segment ends when the
landlady comes and drives car with Shurik in the car and tying them with rope
to take to the police station.
Operation Y and Shurik’s
other Adventures (1965) film was one of the biggest hit movies and became the
leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
It is the film of Shurik’s
Adventures film series. There is another film of this series that is Kidnapping,
Caucasian Style (1967).The films are produced by Mosfilm Production
Company and directed by Leonid Gaidai. Operation Y and Shurik’s Other
Adventures (1965) is also an adventure film as there are three kinds of
adventure story of Shurik. But most of the scenes are comedy but in one side it
gives entertainment and on the side it gives knowledge. For example; the
criminals are failed in every operation and somehow Shurik becomes successful.
But ‘Déjà vu’ segment is more fictional than any other segments.
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