Hello, I'm Your Aunt!

Hello, I'm Your Aunt!

Hello, I'm Your Aunt! ( _ru. Здравствуйте, я ваша тётя!, translit. "Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya!") is a Soviet 1975 musical comedy film directed by Viktor Titov loosely based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. Runtime - 98 min. Produced by T/O Ekran. The film was an immense hit; many lines of dialogue subsequently became catch phrases themselves.

Cast

* Aleksandr Kalyagin as "Babbs Babberley"
* Tamara Nosova as "Donna Rosa d'Alvadorez" (note - Donna Lucia in the play)
* Tatyana Vedeneyeva as "Ela Delahay"
* Valentin Gaft as "Brasset, Lackey"
* Mikhail Lyubeznov as "Charley Wyckham"
* Oleg Shklovsky as "Jackie Chesney"
* Mikhail Kozakov as "Colonel Sir Francis Chesney"
* Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as "Judge Kriegs"
* Galina Orlova as "Betti"
* Tatyana Vasilyeva as "Annie"
* Viktor Gajnov
* Vladimir Korovkin
* Nikolai Tagin
* Anton Makarov
* Anatoli Malashkin
* Yuri Prokhorov
* Rogvold Sukhoverko

Interesting facts

* Original Donna Lucia in the film became Donna Rosa and the phrase "where nuts come from" became "where there are a lot of wild monkeys".
* The film's title became a Russian figure of speech, exclaimed when somebody receives some shocking news that he or she can hardly believe (akin to the English phrase, "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!").
* Famous soundtrack "Love and poverty" ( _ru. Любовь и бедность) was based on the lyrics by Robert Burns translated by Samuil Marshak and features music by Vladislav Kazenin performed by Aleksandr Kalyagin.

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