Osobennosti natsionalnoy okhoty (1995)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Writer:

Aleksandr Rogozhkin (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials...

Plot Keywords:

Hunting | Alcohol

Awards:

4 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Ville Khaapasalo	...	Raivo
Viktor Bychkov	...	Kuzmich
Sergei Ruskin	...	Sergei Olegovich
Aleksey Buldakov	...	General
Semyon Strugachyov	...	Lyova Soloveychik
Sergei Kupriyanov	...	Kachalov
Sergei Guslinsky	...	Semyonov
Igor Sergeyev	...	Count
Igor Dobryakov	...	Nobleman
Yuri Makusinsky	...	Hunter
Zoya Buryak
Boris Cherdyntsev	...	Commandant
Aleksandr Zavyalov	...	Ensign

Also Known As:

Особенности национальной охоты (Russia)
Osobennosti natsionalnoj okhoty v osennij period
Peculiarities of the National Hunt

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

French | German | English | Finnish | Russian

Color:

Color

Company:

Lenfilm Studio

Trivia:

As Raivo gets acquainted with the group, one of them cracks that the Russian elephant is the best friend of the Finnish elephant, a line which leaves the Finn completely bewildered. This is a reference to a well-known Soviet joke poking fun at academics whose adherence to the party line often resulted in nonsense. The joke: Competing to write a book on African elephants, a Frenchman produces a volume on the love lives of elephants; a German writes a 21-volume series titled "A Brief Introduction to the African Elephant", and the Soviet writer comes up with just one sentence: "The African elephant is the best friend of the Soviet elephant."

Movie Connections:

Followed by Osobennosti natsionalnoy rybalki (1998)

What shall we do with drunken hunter?

I should like to underline the movie is NOT for abstinents since from a point of view it may be seen as "only about drinking" movie. The story starts when a young Finn comes to experience real Russian hunt. He has had plenty of dreams about it, so they appear randomly in the film. The reality directs him to the absurd reality that only people with delirium tremens may have known - his companions simple refuse to stop their spiritual way to nowhere and if they luckily are sober, everything turns to even greater absurdity (finding the pineapple in Siberia is my favourite one).

Note: Watch it subtitled only, because a lot of jokes are based on Russian x Finish lingual dissimilarity, which obviously cannot be understood when dubbed.