Eldar RIAZANOV
Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ
Eldar RIAZANOV
USSR, 1968, 87mn 
Colour, fiction
Zigzag udachi
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Зигзаг удачи

 

 Zigzag of Luck

 Les Méandres du succès

 
Directed by : Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ)
Writing credits : Emile BRAGINSKY (Эмиль БРАГИНСКИЙ), Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ)
 
Cast
Yevgeni EVSTIGNEYEV (Евгений ЕВСТИГНЕЕВ) ...Ivan Kalachev
Yevgeni LEONOV (Евгений ЛЕОНОВ) ...Oreshnikov
Irina SKOBTSEVA (Ирина СКОБЦЕВА) ...Lidochka
Valentina TELICHKINA (Валентина ТЕЛИЧКИНА) ...Olya
 
Cinematography : Vladimir NAKHABTSEV (Владимир НАХАБЦЕВ)
Production design : Ippolit NOVODEREZHKIN (Ипполит НОВОДЕРЕЖКИН), Sergey VORONKOV (Сергей ВОРОНКОВ)
Music : Andrey PETROV (Андрей ПЕТРОВ)
Companies : Mosfilm
Spectators : 23,8 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
A satirical comedy, where the main character, photographer Oreshnikov won a large sum of money, having earlier taken money from mutual aid fund. His fellow workers decided to divide the winning and to exclude the photographer from the list of lucky beggars.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru

Reviews from Russian viewers
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Rétrospective Eldar Riazanov au Centre Spirituel et Culturel Orthodoxe Russe, Paris (France), 2020
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2020
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2019

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