Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures
Film poster
RussianОперация «Ы» и другие приключения Шурика
Directed byLeonid Gaidai
Written by
  • Moris Slobodskoy
  • Yakov Kostyukovsky
  • Leonid Gaidai
Starring
CinematographyKonstantin Brovin
Edited byValentina Yankovskaya
Music byAleksandr Zatsepin
Distributed byMosfilm
Release date
  • 16 August 1965 (1965-08-16)
Running time
94 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Operation Y and Shurik's Other 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] The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations, but always finds a way out very neatly.

It was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.[2]

  1. ^ The letter "Y" in the title of the film is in fact Yery (Cyrillic: Ы, pronounced roughly as the vowel sound in the word "nib"), Operatsiya "Y", this codename sounds bizarre because no native Russian word starts with this letter. As Fool (Yu. Nikulin) answers to the "Why 'Y'?" question — "So that nobody would guess why!" The phrase became a common colloquialism in Russian used to answer odd questions.
  2. ^ a b Операция "Ы" и другие приключения Шурика (in Russian). KinoExpert.ru. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
  3. ^ Операция "Ы" и другие приключения Шурика (1965) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010.

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