Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Directed by	Eldar Ryazanov Franco Prosperi
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis Luigi De Laurentiis
Written by	Emil Braginsky Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia Eldar Ryazanov
Starring	Andrei Mironov Ninetto Davoli Antonia Santilli Alighiero Noschese Tano Cimarosa Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev Olga Aroseva
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Cinematography	Mikhail Bitz Gábor Pogány
Editing by	A. Stepanov
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date(s)	January 31, 1974
Running time	100 min.
Country	Soviet Union Italy
Language	Russian
Budget	49,200,000 rubles

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (Russian: Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России, translit. Neveroyatnye Priklyucheniya Italyantsev v Rossii, Italian: Una matta, matta, matta corsa in Russia) is a 1974 joint Soviet-Italian film about some Italians searching for treasure in Russia, and directed by Franco Prosperi and Eldar Ryazanov.

Plot summary

In the hospital in Rome, Italy, an old Russian emigrant woman dies. Dying, she tells her granddaughter that she has hidden her treasures in Leningrad under the lion. Unfortunately, beside her granddaughter she was heard also by a solid doctor, 2 male nurses, an Italian mafioso and a hobbling man. After that they all fly to Russia by the same flight (of course none of them tells the others that he's flying to Russia for the treasures). Having some adventures in the airplane because of mafiosi, they all arrive to Leningrad and begin to dig under every lion statue in the city.

Cast

• Andrei Mironov — Andrey Vasiliev
• Ninetto Davoli — Giuseppe (voiced by Mikhail Kononov)
• Antonia Santilli — Olga (voiced by Natalia Gurzo)
• Alighiero Noschese — Antonio Lo Mazzo (voiced by Aleksandr Belyavskiy)
• Tano Cimarosa — Rosario Agrò (voiced by Mikhail Gluzsky)
• Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev — Lame man
• Olga Aroseva — Andrey's mother
• lion named King.

Crew

• Screenplay by — Emile Braginsky, F. Kastellano, D. Pipolo, E. Ryazanov
• Directed by — Eldar Ryazanov
• Main Operators — Habor Pogani, Mikhail Bitz
• Main Artist — Michail Bogdanov
• Art Directors of Costumes — E. Fiorentini, L. Kusakova
• Composer — Karlo Rustikelli
• Soundoperator — Jury Michaylov
• Conductors — E. Hachaturian, I. Shpiller
• Director — V. Dostale
• Operators — I. Simonelli, V. Semin
• Montage — I. Brojovskaya
• Grime — O. Struncova, M. Chiglyakova
• Editor — A. Stepanov
• Music Editor — R. Lukina
• Directors of Picture — Karlen Agajanov and Karlo Bartolini

External links

• Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia at the Internet Movie Database
• Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia at AllRovi