Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram

As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram
As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram
Directed by
Written by
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

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 .

Plot[]

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 Moscow's citizens 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 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 ...

Cast[]

Innokenty Smoktunovsky as tramway passenger
Vladimir Basov as tramway passenger
as tramway passenger
as tramway passenger
as tramway passenger
as check-taker
Yevgeny Leonov as Vitaly Kapitulov
Nina Agapova as Vera, Kapitulov's wife
as chief editor of newspaper
Grigory Shpigel as employee of the newspaper
as typewriter
Mikhail Gluzsky as accountant Brykin
Ivan Ryzhov as chief editor of newspaper «Fising»'
Zinovy Gerdt as Captain Mazuchcho, animal trainer
as director of circus
Lidiya Smirnova as handler and artistic director of circus
Vladimir Grammatikov as Ussishkin, commissioner of circus
as commissioner of circus
Nina Alisova as Vasilisa Aleksandrovna, secretary
as circus ringmaster
Igor Yasulovich as Vasya the sculptor / Hans the sculptor
as girl in a beret
Rolan Bykov as Ivan S. Fedorenko
Lev Durov as passerby / Gusev-Lebedev
as nurse
Yevgeny Morgunov as robber
Valery Nosik as Kipyatkov
as visitor to the cafe
as visitor to the cafe
Oleg Tabakov as voice-over

References[]

External links[]

Ehali v tramvae Ilf i Petrov at IMDb

This article related to a Soviet film of the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] "Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров, 1972".

[2] "Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров (1971)".

[1]

[2]