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An anthology film comprising two comedy shorts about life in rural Ossetia.
An anthology film comprising two comedy shorts about life in rural Ossetia.
Kosta Slanov
Davit Qobulovi
Vasili Chkhaidze
Vasilisa Komaeva
Isak Gogichev
Nikolai Salamov
Azret Tkhazaplizhev
Kosta Biragov
Akhsarbek Bekmurzov
An anthology film comprising two comedy shorts about life in rural Ossetia.
Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
An up-and-coming stand-up comic moves to L.A. to pursue a film career after video clips of his act make him an online sensation.
Two high school misfits join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.
Armed with boyish charm and a sharp wit, the former "SNL" writer offers sly takes on marriage, his beef with babies and the time he met Bill Clinton.
A pre-Monty Python mockumentary, written by and presented by John Cleese, that provides tips on learning how to irritate people.