What a Mess! (1995)
2h 23m
Running Time
June 6, 1995Release Date
What a Mess! (1995)
2h 23m
Running Time
June 6, 1995Release Date
Plot.
The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers.
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Cast & Crew.
Valeriy Garkalin
Vasiliy Krolikov / Innokentiy Shniperson / Roman Almazov
Vera Alentova
Carol Abzats / Zemfira Almazova / Lusiena Krolikova
Inna Churikova
Praskov'ya Alekseyevna Krolikova
Leonid Kuravlyov
USA ambassador
Igor Ugolnikov
Piskunov Jean-Paul Nikolayevich
Lyubov Polishchuk
Jennifer, Ambassador's wife
Vladimir Menshov
Director
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Ambassador's bodyguard
Irina Apeksimova
Step performer / Violinist from Conservatory
Vitaly Moskalenko
Writer
Sergey Batalov
lieutenant
Andrei Samsonov
Writer
Vladimir Dostal
Producer
Vladimir Dostal
Producer
Lev Borisov
Mafiosi
Timur Kogan
Composer
Vadim Alisov
Cinematographer
Vadim Alisov
Cinematographer
Aleksei Buldakov
pilot
Yuriy Chernov
Suitcase carrier
Rolan Bykov
Head of Mafia / Brilliant's buyer
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Kozyulski
Oleg Tabakov
Sukhodrishchev
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Father
Mikhail Kokshenov
Ambassador's bodyguard
Nonna Mordyukova
Registry Office Worker
Valeriy Nikolaev
Step performer
Vsevolod Sanayev
music lover
Yevgeni Vesnik
Doctor
Pyotr Merkuryev
Meloman
Oleg Efremov
Nikolay Grigoryevich
Boris Smorchkov
General
Sergei Artsybashev
Registry Office Worker
Viktor Gajnov
Kvazimodo
Yuriy Kuzmenkov
man with a goat
Inna Kara-Mosko
Carol's friend
Evgeniy Gerchakov
director of the orchestra
Arkadiy Koval
TV announcer
Yevgeni Aleksandrov
reporter
Valeriy Afanasyev
geologist Anatoliy Ivanov
Sergey Gabrielyan
Ravil Beliletdinov
Tatyana Kravchenko
Bronislava Rosenbaum
Vladimir Gusev
general
Ivan Martynov
mobster
Sergey Ruban
mobster
Nina Alisova
music lover
Klavdiya Kozlyonkova
passenger (uncredited)
Marina Golub
director of the Philharmonic
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 6, 1995
Original NameШирли-мырли
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 23m
Budget$1,200,000
Genres
Wiki.
Shirli-myrli (Russian: Ширли-мырли, also released as What a Mess!) is a 1995 farce comedy film of the early post-soviet era directed by Vladimir Menshov. Centered around a pursued con man, who stole a huge diamond, the movie, among other things, satirizes chauvinism, antisemitism and other ethnic tensions in the 1990s Russia. Valery Garkalin plays multiple roles as identical twins who were raised believing they belong to different cultures and races and used to look down on each other's.