Top 55 Soviet & Russian Comedy Movies
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- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoMikhail PugovkinAleksei SmirnovThree stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.Screwball/romantic/slapstick. Three episodes from the life of Shurik, three types of comedy. Chased around a construction site by a hooligan, meeting his love via deja vu and protecting a storehouse from a trio of Coward, Fool and Pro.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAleksey BatalovIrina MuravyovaThree young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.Romantic comedy/drama. Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film of 1980, and generally one of the most popular Soviet movies. A story of three young girls who arrive to the 1950s Moscow seeking love and fortune.
- DirectorAleksandr SeryyStarsEvgeniy LeonovGeorgiy VitsinSaveliy KramarovIt so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and care.Crime comedy. A team of gangsters steals Alexander the Great's helmet directly from an excavation site. In order to locate it, police finds an exact copy of the gang's band leader who happens to be a kindergarten director.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsSergo ZakariadzeVakhtang KikabidzeSofiko ChiaureliA young happy-go-lucky village doctor lives a leisurely life as comic events unfold around him.Comedy/drama. Loosely based on the French novel Mon oncle Benjamin. Depicts the life of a small Georgian village during the 19th century. Full of hilarious characters, national songs, both funny and tragic subplots. Fellini loved it.
- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsPyotr ZinovyevYelena YegorovaMikhail GipsiA hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.Fairy tale/slapstick/silent. One of the most original comedies by one of the most underrated directors. A village idiot is in search of happiness before and after 1917.
- DirectorGenrikh OganisyanStarsNatalya KustinskayaNatalya FateevaAndrey MironovThree men vacation on a deserted beach near The Black Sea, trying to get away from women and society. However, two women arrive and try to claim the vacation spot as their own. The groups scheme to run each other off the beach.Romantic comedy. Three guys decide to spend their vacation as hermits on a beach - without tobacco, alcohol and women. But their plans are ruined by two stubborn girls.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy YakovlevLeonid KuravlyovAleksandr DemyanenkoAn ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.Screwball/time travel. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's play. Shurik builds a time machine, travels to the past and scares Ivan the Terrible who escapes to the XX century.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyOleg EfremovLyubov DobrzhanskayaA very good cop tries to catch a very insidious and extremely clever serial car thief. The bitter irony is that the thief is not very clever, absolutely not insidious, and a virtuous person and his friend.Comedy/mystery. Soviet Robin Hood steals cars from corrupted and sends money to orphaned. It's just that his best friend is a cop seeking a mysterious carjacker.
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsSemyon MorozovNatalya VarleyMarianna VertinskayaWhile serving in the army the corporal Zbruev struck up correspondence with seven young women. Upon the end of his service he is transversing the country to meet them and choose a bride.Romantic/road movie. Demobilised soldier visits 7 girls on his way home, hoping to find a bride among them. Many surprises await him as he has never met them in person.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsNikita MikhalkovAleksei LoktevGalina PolskikhYoung Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Volodya and Kolya's friend Sasha adventure their love interests in their own way, while Kolya sets out to help them.Comedy. A "feel good" movie about three young people who meet in Moscow for the first time and spend one day together. First roles of several notable actors.
- DirectorKonstantin YudinStarsValentina SerovaEvgeniy SamoylovLyudmila TselikovskayaA light-hearted satire of manners and morals telling the story of two sisters that fall in love with the other's boyfriend. Complications arise. Valentina Serova is a prim professor who sets out to teach army lieutenant Eugene Samoilov/Yvengeni Samojlov some lessons in math but winds up learning lessons in love from him. Released in the US in 1946 as "Four Hearts" with the English titles written by Charles Clement.Romantic comedy. A sweet, lighthearted comedy about a love quadrilateral that involves two sisters (a merry student and a serious mathematician), an officer and a biologist.
- DirectorYuriy ChulyukinStarsNadezhda RumyantsevaNikolay RybnikovLyusena OvchinnikovaSeveral romance stories - part funny, part sadly - set in a remote logging camp.Romantic comedy. A hugely popular and lighthearted comedy about a hyperactive girl who arrives to a small Siberian village to work as a cook and quickly falls in love.
- StarsMikhail KononovEvgeniy LeonovRolan BykovA young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.Screwball comedy. A young nerd with a ruined career and love life applies to the evening school as a history teacher. He is given a class of grownups with unfinished education. Nobody takes the studies seriously, but he will show them!
- StarsDmitriy NagievSergey RostAndrey BalashovA low-ranking army officer and a brilliant scientist have to deal with maniacs, sectarians, terrorists, aliens, corrupted policemen and annoying relatives who keep disturbing their quiet neighborhood. Over 100 roles played by two actors.Sitcom. One house, three families and all sort of everyday problems: kids, lovers, burglars, spies, sects, Islamic terrorists, UFOs, vampires, time travels, etc. Best Russian (or maybe just the best) sitcom ever - bold, satirical and politically incorrect. All 100+ roles are performed by just TWO actors.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAndrey MyagkovSvetlana NemolyaevaThe life of entire statistical bureau becomes crazy when an ordinary worker, a shy man, falls in love with a boss, a strict woman.Romantic comedy. Soviet love story about an extremely shy middle-aged office worker who starts flirting with unattractive boss lady in order to get a promotion.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVladimir TolokonnikovBoris PlotnikovIn the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.Satire/science fiction. Based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov written in 1925 and banned for 60 years. Acclaimed professor of medicine is trying to grow a man out of a dog.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy NikulinNina GrebeshkovaAndrey MironovAn ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.Screwball/crime comedy. The 3rd highest-grossing Soviet film. A middle-aged tourist slipped, fell down, lost conscious and woke up with a plaster full of jewelry on his hand.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsAnna StenVladimir MikhaylovVladimir FogelNatasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame's to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame's husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicatedSilent/romantic comedy. Sweet early comedy about a young girl, her fake marriage to a poor student without a flat and an elderly couple with a flat, but with no conscience.
- DirectorVasiliy ShukshinStarsLeonid KuravlyovLidiya ChashchinaLarisa BurkovaThe story of an Altai truck driver, a kind and outgoing person, who loves life. But it turns out that he can also be a hero, when he prevents the explosion of a gasoline truck by risking his life.Comedy/road movie. First future film by one of the main figures in the so-called Village Prose movement Vasiliy Shukshin based on his own stories. A young cheerful truck driver travels through the countryside helping other people.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsArchil GomiashviliSergey FilippovMikhail PugovkinTwo gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.Screwball/road movie. Scam artist and his elderly companion travel around the early USSR in search of a treasure hidden in one of the twelve chairs. Excellent adaptation.
- DirectorMikhail ShvejtserStarsSergey YurskiyLeonid KuravlyovZinoviy GerdtA crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs, " now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.Screwball/road movie. Chronologically a sequel to 12 Chairs. This time he's after an underground millionaire!
- DirectorAlla SurikovaStarsAndrey MironovAlexandra YakovlevaMikhail BoyarskiyMr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.Slapstick/Western/musical. The film takes place at the start of XX century. A gentleman arrives to the Wild West to сhange the lives of cowboys with the help of... cinema.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovPorfiri PodobedStarsIgor IlyinskyAnatoli KtorovMariya StrelkovaSatire of religious charlatanry where priests, police, and stock market officials conspire to fleece pilgrims who've come to see relics of a supposed saint. A pair of con men hatch a scheme to pass off one of the duo as the saint reincarnated.Silent comedy/religious satire. A silent film with few spoken episodes that satires clergy. A criminal escapes from prison and hides in the town cathedral. The holiday of St. Jorgen is coming, but nobody has seen this saint... yet.
- DirectorAnatoliy GranikStarsLeonid BykovNikolay YakovchenkoAleksandr BorisovMaxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.Army comedy. Adventures of a funny guy in the Soviet army. Leonid Bykov easily beats Bill Murray in this role.
- DirectorGennadi PolokaStarsSergey YurskiyYuliya BuryginaPavel LuspekayevGang boys from the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia are being tamed and educated at SHKID - Dostoevsky School.Screwball comedy/biography. Based on the 1926 novel by 2 former orphans. A school for young offenders comes to idea of republic. Brilliant acting by both kids and adults.