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Bootleggers

Bootleggers

19627.40h 19m

Overview

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...

Directed by Leonid Gaidai
Written by Leonid Gaidai, Konstantin Brovin, Vladimir Lifshits
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Top Cast

Yuriy Nikulin

Yuriy Nikulin

«Балбес»

Georgiy Vitsin

Georgiy Vitsin

«Трус»

Yevgeni Morgunov

Yevgeni Morgunov

«Бывалый»

Vladimir Pitsek

Vladimir Pitsek

милиционер

Themes & Keywords

policealcoholismslapstick comedydogmoonshineshort film

About Bootleggers

Bootleggers is a comedy film released in 1962 exploring themes of police, alcoholism, slapstick comedy, dog, moonshine, short film. Directed by Leonid Gaidai, it stars Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov. 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...

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