Aleksandr Demyanenko

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.

Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Yuriy Nikulin

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Aleksei Smirnov, Mikhail Pugovkin