Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram
| As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Viktor Titov |
| Written by | Viktor Titov |
| Starring | Yevgeny Leonov Mikhail Gluzsky Vladimir Basov Rolan Bykov Zinovy Gerdt Innokenty Smoktunovsky |
| Cinematography | Georgy Rerberg |
| Music by | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
Production company | |
Release date | 19 August 1972 |
Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram[1] (Russian: Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров, romanized: Ehali v tramvae Ilf i Petrov[2] is a 1972 Soviet comedy film directed by Viktor Titov.
Plot
The film is a series of short comedies, based on humorous
satirist writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. These comedies describe the everyday life of Moscow and in the 1920s and 1930s; the film uses a lot of newsreels
of the time.
Comedy's subjects are various as life itself. For example, a clerk named Kapitulov is constantly scaring his wife and colleagues with his poor health. As a result, all the household chores is shouldered on his wife, and his colleagues at work do all Kapitulov's duties, while he sleeps nearby, sitting on a chair ...
Cast
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky as tramway passenger
- Vladimir Basov as tramway passenger
- Svetlana Starikova as tramway passenger
- Emmanuil Geller as tramway passenger
- Nicholas Gorlov as tramway passenger
- Elena Volsky as check-taker
- Yevgeny Leonov as Vitaly Kapitulov
- Nina Agapova as Vera, Kapitulov's wife
- Nikholay Grabbe as chief editor of newspaper
- Grigory Shpigel as employee of the newspaper
- Olga Gobzeva as typewriter
- Mikhail Gluzsky as accountant Brykin
- Ivan Ryzhov as chief editor of newspaper «Fising»'
- Zinovy Gerdt as Captain Mazuchcho, animal trainer
- Arkady Zinman as director of circus
- Lidiya Smirnova as handler and artistic director of circus
- Vladimir Grammatikov as Ussishkin, commissioner of circus
- Nicholas Dostal as commissioner of circus
- Nina Alisova as Vasilisa Aleksandrovna, secretary
- Vyacheslav Gostinsky as circus ringmaster
- Igor Yasulovich as Vasya the sculptor / Hans the sculptor
- Svetlana Danilchenko as girl in a beret
- Rolan Bykov as Ivan S. Fedorenko
- Lev Durov as passerby / Gusev-Lebedev
- Michaela Drozdovskaya as nurse
- Yevgeny Morgunov as robber
- Valery Nosik as Kipyatkov
- Rudolf Rudin as visitor to the cafe
- Jacob Lenz as visitor to the cafe
- Oleg Tabakov as voice-over
References
External links
- Ehali v tramvae Ilf i Petrov at IMDb
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