Don't Play the Fool...

Не валяй дурака
Directed by Valeri Chikov [1]
Produced by Aleksei Shachnev
Starring Mikhail Yevdokimov
Lev Durov
Valeri Zolotukhin
Music by Konstantin Shevelyov
Cinematography Timur Zelma
Edited by Galina Dyakonova
Release dates
 1997
Running time
 97 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

Don't Play the Fool... (Russian: Не валяй дурака...) is a Russian comedy film by Valeri Chikov. It shows unlight relations between The USSR and The USA after Cold War with a tragicomic side.

Plot [2]

Americans have decided to make sure that in the villages of Arkhangelsk diamond deposit is indeed found, and was sent there a submarine under the command of veteran Black, who accompanied the convoys of the Allies during the 2nd World War. As a diversion to the bank was planted with an alcohol barrel (200 liters), caught the local blacksmith Filimon (Yevdokimov). On this occasion, staged festivities, which all the American submariners will gradually have been connected against their desire. The black veteran found his grandson, who was born in Filimon's family.

During the holiday takes place on fire. In a panic, drunk people running away from the barn, where until then sang songs and drank alcohol, but Filimon, risking their lives, enters the burning barn and barrel rolls out of it. Barrel is empty. Barn burns down and falls on the background of the Russian Orthodox Church under the lyrical music. Filimon was sentenced to two years in prison for disturbing public order, at home he had confiscated all the weapons.

At the end of the film a Japanese submarine arrives at the same village, and Filimon again catches a barrel of pure alcohol...

Cast [3]

References

  1. ↑ Kino-Na-Sharu
  2. ↑ Не валяй дурака
  3. ↑ Ruskino

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