| It Can't Be! | |
| Director: | Leonid Gaidai |
| Music: | Aleksandr Zatsepin |
| Cinematography: | Sergei Poluyanov |
| Distributor: |
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| Runtime: | 92 min. |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
It Can't Be! (Russian: Не может быть!|Ne mozhet byt'!) is a 1975 Soviet anthology film directed by Leonid Gaidai.[1] It consists of three short stories, based on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko: Crime and Punishment, Fun Adventure and Wedding Event.
The first novel describes the complexity of the shop manager, Gorbushkin living in Soviet times, the end of the 1920s on unearned income. Being called to the investigator, he thoroughly believes that this will not bring anything good. These thoughts go to his wife, Anna, and his brother-in-law. Anna Vasilyevna, his wife, decides that in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of their property, they must urgently sell everything that was acquired by "back-breaking" labor. In addition, Anna hastily divorces Gorbushkin and marries a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And in the end, Gorbushkin, who is only called as a witness (a week before he still got arrested), returns home happily.
The following short story of the film shows the intricacies of extramarital relations. Heading into the weekend supposedly to work, but in reality to his mistress, and sometimes hard to imagine that her husband's mistress could be lover lover friend, neighbor, friend and lover in the communal - a lover of your own wife. In the end, all six characters is purely coincidental, with interesting circumstances intersect together and gathered around the table, trying to find a way out of this situation, but in the end did not need and did not come. In any case, such a conclusion can be drawn from rolling in extreme caricature dispute sixes at the table.
In the final novel by the young man, Vladimir Zavitushkin, fails to offer a hand and heart, he comes to his own wedding, where he can not find a bride - before they met only on the street, and he memorized her in winter clothes. Attempts to discreetly find out who of the women present is his future wife, lead to unpredictable consequences - the bridegroom takes the bride (and she does have a daughter (and not one) - very little) for her mother.
| Translation | Original title | Transliterated title | Performer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| It's not beer that spoils people | «Губит людей не пиво» | Gubit lyudei ne pivo | Vyacheslav Nevinny | |
| Cupid | «Купидон» | Kupidon | Oleg Dal | |
| Black horseshoes | «Чёрные подковы» | Chyornye podkovy | Robert Mushkambaryan | |
| Everything is possible | «Всё может быть» | Vsyo mozhet byt | Oleg Anofriyev | |
| At the samovar, me and my Masha | «У самовара я и моя Маша» | U samovara ya i moya Masha | instrumental ensemble |