Absolutely Seriously (Russian: Совершенно серьёзно) is a 1961 Soviet comedy anthology film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Naum Trakhtenberg, Eduard Zmoiro, Vladimir Semakov and Leonid Gaidai. The best known novella is Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross which is often screened separately.
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Plot
The film is a comedy almanac, which includes five short stories.
Cast
Sergey Filippov as cameo, almanac presenter
Pavel Tarasov as movie critic
Pyotr Repnin as movie critic
Igor Sretensky as screenwriter
How Robinson Was Created
Anatoli Papanov as editor of magazine "Adventure Business"
Sergey Filippov as writer Moldavantsev/Robinson Crusoe
Zinovy Gerdt as narrator (uncredited)
A Story with Pirozhki
Rostislav Plyatt as customer
Georgy Georgiu as store manager
Boris Novikov as chief of department
Emma Treyvas as chief of section
Svetlana Kharitonova as cashier Tonechka
Rina Zelyonaya as lady in queue
Foreigners
Vladimir Kulik as Zhora Volobuyev the stilyaga
Maria Vladimirovna Mironova as Zhora's mother
Maria Kravchunovskaya as Zhora's grandmother
Aleksandr Belyavsky as "Frank" the journalist
Ilya Rutberg as Edik "Kosoi" the stilyaga
Tatiana Bestaeva as "Mary" the stilyaga
Bon Appetit
Serafim Anikeyev as visitor, the former waiter
Marina Polbentseva as waiter
Olga Viklandt as barmaid
Nina Mager as young waiter
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina as café visitor (uncredited)
Pavel Vinnik as cook (uncredited)
Georgy Millyar as doorman (uncredited)
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Yevgeny Morgunov as Pro
Yuri Nikulin as Fool
Georgy Vitsin as Coward
Dog Bryokh as Dog Barbos
Georgy Millyar as fishery supervision inspector in a boat