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Mikhail Pugovkin has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession.
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Animal House
1978
Comedy

Rookies Run Amok
1971
Comedy

Tosun Pasha
1976
Comedy

The Seventh Company Outdoors
1977
Comedy

Saban, Son of Saban
1977
Comedy

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972
Comedy

The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
Comedy

The Sucker
1965
Comedy · Crime

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

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

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
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