Operation "Y" (& other Shurik's Adventures)

This eccentric comedy directed by Leonid Gaidai includes 3 novellas united by the main character, cranky Shurik, who often finds himself in the most incredible situations. In “Partner” he is rehabilitating a hooligan Bully, serving his 15-day administrative sentence, in “Strange Impression”, entranced, he is preparing to take an exam and passes it successfully, in “Operation Y” he is saving a warehouse, which has already been robbed by its director, from being broken in by Booby, Coward and Experienced.

original title: Operatsia "Y" i drugije prikljuchenija Shurika
genre: comedy
director: Leonid Gaidai
script: Yakov Kostyukovsky, Moris Slobodskoy, Leonid Gaidai
camera: Konstantin Brovin
music: Alexander Zatsepin
Rusland, 1965, Mosfilm

cast: Alexander Demyanenko, Alexey Smirnov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Vladimir Basov, Natalya Seleznyova

extra's: Director Leonid Gaidai featurette / Interview with actors Natalya Varley and Victor Pavlov, composer Alexander Zatsepin / Actor Yuri Nikulin featurette / Cast and crew filmographies

DVD5 / R2 / 4:3 / color
running time: 96 min.
sound: Dolby 2.0
spoken language: (original) Russian, (optional) English
subtitles: Russian, English, French, German, Spanish.