Absolutely Seriously (Russian: Совершенно серьёзно) is a 1961 Soviet comedy anthology film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Naum Trakhtenberg, Eduard Zmoiro, Vladimir Semakov and Leonid Gaidai.[1][2] The best known novella is Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross which is often screened separately.
Plot
The film is a comedy almanac, which includes five short stories.[3]
Cast
- Sergey Filippov as cameo, almanac presenter
- Pavel Tarasov as movie critic
- Pyotr Repnin as movie critic
- Igor Sretensky as screenwriter
How Robinson Was Created
- Anatoli Papanov as editor of magazine "Adventure Business"
- Sergey Filippov as writer Moldavantsev/Robinson Crusoe
- Zinovy Gerdt as narrator (uncredited)
A Story with Pirozhki
- Rostislav Plyatt as customer
- Georgy Georgiu as store manager
- Boris Novikov as chief of department
- Emma Treyvas as chief of section
- Svetlana Kharitonova as cashier Tonechka
- Rina Zelyonaya as lady in queue
Foreigners
- Vladimir Kulik as Zhora Volobuyev the stilyaga
- Maria Vladimirovna Mironova as Zhora's mother
- Maria Kravchunovskaya as Zhora's grandmother
- Aleksandr Belyavsky as "Frank" the journalist
- Ilya Rutberg as Edik "Kosoi" the stilyaga
- Tatiana Bestaeva as "Mary" the stilyaga
Bon Appetit
- Serafim Anikeyev as visitor, the former waiter
- Marina Polbentseva as waiter
- Olga Viklandt as barmaid
- Nina Mager as young waiter
- Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina as café visitor (uncredited)
- Pavel Vinnik as cook (uncredited)
- Georgy Millyar as doorman (uncredited)
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
- Yevgeny Morgunov as Pro
- Yuri Nikulin as Fool
- Georgy Vitsin[4] as Coward
- Dog Bryokh as Dog Barbos
- Georgy Millyar as fishery supervision inspector in a boat
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