What a Mess! (1995)
2h 23m
Running Time
June 6, 1995Release Date
What a Mess! (1995)
2h 23m
Running Time
June 6, 1995Release Date
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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 / Patrick Crolikow

Vera Alentova
Carol Abzats / Zemfira Almazova / Lusiena Krolikova / Whitney Crolikow

Inna Churikova
Praskov'ya Alekseyevna Krolikova

Leonid Kuravlyov
USA ambassador

Lyubov Polishchuk
Jennifer, Ambassador's wife

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Ambassador's bodyguard

Irina Apeksimova
Step performer / Violinist from Conservatory

Sergey Batalov
lieutenant

Igor Ugolnikov
Piskunov Jean-Paul Nikolayevich

Lev Borisov
Mafiosi

Aleksei Buldakov
pilot

Yuriy Chernov
Suitcase carrier

Rolan Bykov
Head of Mafia / Brilliant's buyer

Vladimir Menshov
Russian President / Commentator on TV / Director / Writer

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

Vad Al
Cinematographer

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

Andrey Zvyagintsev
episode (uncredited)

Maxim Glotov
traffic cop

Andrei Samsonov
Writer

Vitaly Moskalenko
Writer

Vladimir Vasilyev
Visual Effects Camera

Vitali Morozov
Sound Director

Lyudmila Sviridenko
Editor

Timur Kogan
Original Music Composer

Vadim Alisov
Director of Photography

G. Sviridenko
Editor

Valeri Filippov
Production Design

Olga Ilyina
Sound

Vladimir Dostal
Producer

Aleksandr Litvinov
Executive Producer
Media.





Details.
Release DateJune 6, 1995
Original NameШирли-мырли
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 23m
Budget$1,200,000
Genres
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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.
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