Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram[1] (Russian: Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров, romanized: Ehali v tramvae Ilf i Petrov[2] is a 1972 Soviet comedy film directed by Viktor Titov.
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Directed by | Viktor Titov |
Written by | Viktor Titov |
Starring | Yevgeny Leonov Mikhail Gluzsky Vladimir Basov Rolan Bykov Zinovy Gerdt Innokenty Smoktunovsky |
Cinematography | Georgy Rerberg |
Music by | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
Production company | Mosfilm |
Release date | 19 August 1972 |
Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
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The film is a series of short comedies, based on humorous anecdotes, stories and notebooks of famous satirist writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. These comedies describe the everyday life of Moscow and in the 1920s and 1930s; the film uses a lot of newsreels of the time.
Comedy's subjects are various as life itself. For example, a clerk named Kapitulov is constantly scaring his wife and colleagues with his poor health. As a result, all the household chores is shouldered on his wife, and his colleagues at work do all Kapitulov's duties, while he sleeps nearby, sitting on a chair ...
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