Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995)

Awards
- 5 wins & 2 nominations total

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Ville Haapasalo

Raivo
(as Ville Khaapasalo)

Viktor Bychkov

Kuzmich

Sergey Russkin

Sergei Olegovich

Aleksey Buldakov

General

Semyon Strugachyov

Lyova Soloveychik

Sergei Kupriianov

Kachalov
(as Sergey Kupriyanov)

Sergei Gusinskiy

Semyonov
(as Sergei Guslinsky)

Igor Sergeev

Count

Igor Dobryakov

Nobleman

Yury Makusinsky

Hunter

Zoya Buryak

Milkmaid

Boris Cherdyntsev

Commandant

Aleksandr Zavyalov

Ensign

Saara Hedlund

Milkmaid

Aleksey Poluyan

Zaderzhannyy

Aleksandr Vasiliev

Pilot

Director
- Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Writer
- Aleksandr Rogozhkin
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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."

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Featured in Radio Dolin: Peculiarities of the National Hunt - How Alexander Rogozhkin Created the Canon of the National Blockbuster (2021)

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.