The incredible adventures of Italians in Russia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The incredible adventures of Italians in Russia |
| Original title | Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eldar Ryazanov |
| script |
Emil Braginski Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia Eldar Ryazanov |
| production |
Mosfilm (Moscow) Produzione Dino De Laurentiis (Rome) |
| music | Carlo Rustichelli |
| camera |
Michail Biz Gábor Pogány |
| cut | Inessa Brochovskaya |
| occupation | |
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The unbelievable adventures of Italians in Russia ( Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России ) is a Soviet-Italian co-production, directed by Eldar Ryazanov from the year 1974 .
action
A male nurse and his brother-in-law who drive together in an ambulance in Rome use it almost exclusively for private purposes. When they do call the headquarters once, they get the job of taking a seriously ill former ballerina from the Petrograd court theater from a nursing home to a hospital. The hospital is completely overcrowded, but they just put the lady in the bed of a man with a leg in plaster. Almost at the same time, the dancer's granddaughter, Olga, arrives and she reveals that she is not that poor. On the run from the Russian October Revolution of 1917, she buried her fortune under a lion in Petrograd. Shortly before her death, she gives Olga the key to the jewelery box and whispers in her ear that there is a well about 100 meters from the hiding place. Five people in the hospital room can also hear this confession: the two ambulance drivers, the doctor, the man with the leg in plaster and Rosario Agrò, a mafioso whose wife is supposed to give birth to the boy who is finally expected after seven girls.
The next day, the five meet on an Aeroflot plane to Moscow . Since everyone wants the treasure, there are first attempts to eliminate each other. The mafioso steals the doctor's passport so that he cannot enter the Soviet Union . After disposal in the toilet, the passport lands on the outside of an aircraft window. To remove it from there, Rosario steps against the window, the pane breaks and the suction sucks it into the hole and gets stuck in it on the hip. Therefore the plane has to make an emergency landing on the highway to Minsk .
When they finally arrived in Moscow, they were greeted under a pretext by the tour guide Andrei Vasilyev, who wanted to accompany the group in the Soviet Union. In reality, he is a civilian employee of the militia , which was informed about the treasure hunt by the jealous wife of one of the nurses. With a borrowed car, Olga sets off for Leningrad and Andrej and the two carers follow behind. It will be an eventful car chase with an exploded gas station, a car stolen from a car transporter while driving, a stolen fire department truck, a destroyed house, several damaged cars and more. Always with them is the mafioso who they thought they had left behind in Moscow.
In Leningrad they find out that there are hundreds of lions. Several attempts to find the treasure by digging fail. For this, Olga and Andrej fall in love. But the search has to continue and you will find it under a living lion in the zoo. But since the competing seekers dig from two sides, the ceiling with the lion collapses over them and now the lion chases after the one who holds the box with the treasure in his hands. In order to flee from the lion, they row a boat on the Neva and if there is a scramble, the box falls into the river. Andrej takes them out again and after it has been clarified that the finders are entitled to a 25% finder's fee, the Italians want to fly back to Rome. Rosario now also knows that instead of the expected boy, two girls are waiting for him there. On the plane they meet the doctor without a passport, who has to constantly fly back and forth between Rome and Moscow as he is not allowed to stay in any country without a valid document. At the last moment, Olga jumps out of the plane, right into Andrej's open arms.
production
The film, shot in color, premiered on January 31, 1974 under the title Una matta, matta, matta corsa in Russia in Italy and on March 18, 1974 under the title Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России in the Soviet Union.
The first broadcast in the 2nd program of the GDR television took place on December 26, 1974 under the title The incredible adventures of Italians in Russia , still with German subtitles.
The start of the synchronized German version for the GDR cinemas began on June 26, 1975, on the occasion of the XIV. Summer Film Days on the regatta grandstand in Berlin-Grünau .
criticism
Günter Sobe praised in the Berliner Zeitung that this strip was the only one at the summer film days that lived up to the promise of fun entertainment. The effect of this comedy is mainly based on the fact that one worked rigorously with all the gags that could only be brought into the context of the plot.
The lexicon of international films described the film as a turbulent comedy, which, although without particular artistic ambition, is friendly and entertaining.
Web links
- The unbelievable adventures of Italians in Russia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 878 V).
- ↑ Neue Zeit of December 24, 1974; P. 16
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 21, 1975 p. 6
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of July 8, 1975; P. 6
- ↑ The Incredible Adventures of the Italians in Russia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .