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CriticCrunch has 5 Yuriy Nikulin titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Andrei Rublev.
How to Murder Your Wife
1965
Comedy
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · With Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Mykola Hrynko
A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Nonna Mordyukova
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
as «Balbes» (segment "Operation Y")
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
This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov
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