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Bootleggers

Name: Bootleggers
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1961
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov, Vladimir Pitsek

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

1961 · Directed by Leonid Gaidai · 19 min · Comedy · 10 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Leonid Gaidai, Konstantin Brovin
Cinematography: Konstantin Brovin
Music: Nikita Bogoslovskiy
Production design: Konstantin Stepanov

Cast

Yuriy Nikulin as «Балбес»
Georgiy Vitsin as «Трус»
Yevgeni Morgunov as «Бывалый»
Vladimir Pitsek as милиционер

Production

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Studios: Mosfilm
Themes: police, alcoholism, slapstick comedy, dog, moonshine, short film

More by Leonid Gaidai

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession — 1973
The Diamond Arm — 1969
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures — 1965
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style — 1967
SportLotto - 82 — 1982

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