Gentlemen of success

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Movie
German title Gentlemen of success
Original title Джентльмены удачи Dschentlmeny udatschi
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1971
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Aleksandr Seryj
script Giorgi Danelia
Viktorija Tokareva
production Mosfilm
music Gennady Gladkov
camera Georgi Kupriyanov
cut M. Renkowa
occupation

Gentlemen of Success ( Russian Джентльмены удачи Dschentlmeny udatschi , German 'Gentlemen of Happiness' ) is a Soviet comedy film from 1971 , written by Giorgi Danelia and Viktorija Tokarewa .

action

The film is about a kindergarten teacher named Troschkin, who looks exactly like a criminal with the pseudonym Lecturer who is said to have stolen the helmet of Alexander the Great , which was found on an archaeological excavation. The leader of the expedition - Professor Malzew - runs into Troschkin by chance and thinks he is this criminal. The mix-up is quickly cleared up and Troschkin is asked to pretend to be a lecturer in order to find the helmet. After Lecturer and his gang are caught by the police, he is locked in a different cell than his accomplices. Troschkin pretends to be a lecturer and feigns memory gaps.

The criminals Fyodor Yermakov (nickname Kosoj) and Gavriil Sheremetyev (nickname Chmyr) cannot give any information about the whereabouts of the helmet because they are not Muscovites and do not know their way around Moscow. The police organized an escape from the prison in Central Asia. A petty criminal who has nothing to do with the helmet theft also escapes - Vasily Alibabaevich Ali-Baba.

In Moscow, the four initially live in an abandoned old house until it catches fire and burns down due to an inattention on the part of Vasily Alibabaevich. After all, they live in Professor Malzew's dacha, with Troschkin telling the criminals that the owners have been away for a long time. The four of them drive around Moscow with the police (disguised as taxi drivers) and look for places where the lecturer has been. Troschkin meanwhile tries to appeal to the criminals' conscience so that they change their way of life and stop committing crimes. However, he is unsuccessful because he cannot reveal his true identity.

When the police learn of the real lecturer's escape, they order the operation to be stopped. Troschkin insists on celebrating New Year's Eve with the criminals and then revealing his true identity. But before he can do that, he is gagged and tied up by the criminals because they are fed up with the game of hide and seek and want to surrender to the police. They leave Troschkin in the dacha and go to a lake where they suspect the helmet. There they meet the real lecturer who forces the Kosoj to dive into the lake to get the helmet.

In the meantime Troschkin has freed himself and rushes to the lake, where the doppelgangers meet. There is no bloodshed because Kosoy, Chmyr and Vasily Alibabaevich knock both doppelgangers unconscious with a paddle. You want to hand both lecturers over to the police. When the police come to the scene, the real lecturer is arrested, the professor receives the helmet and the three criminals are simply left standing by the police. Then one of the police cars stops and Troschkin runs up to the three of them to explain everything, but they decide to run away.

Monument in Taras

Fyodor, lecturer and Vasily

In the southern Kazakh city of Taras (Djambul from 1938 to 1997) a monument was erected near the New Market to the three protagonists of the film, Fyodor Yermakov, lecturer (or Evgeny Troschkin) and Vasili Alibabaevich. On the memorial there is simply a quote from the film (in Russian) by Vasily Alibabayevich: "I want to go to Jambul, it's warm there, my mother is there."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gentlemen of Success. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 23, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Wassili Alibabajewitsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)