CINEFILER

What a Mess!

1995
143 minutes
Comedy
★★★★★
★★★★★
3.45
Directed By: Vladimir Menshov
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The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers.

Language
Russian
Release Date
June 6, 1995
Budget
$1,200,000
Cast
Valeriy Garkalin
Vasiliy Krolikov / Innokentiy Shniperson / Roman Almazov / Patrick Crolikow
Vera Alentova
Carol Abzats / Zemfira Almazova / Lusiena Krolikova / Whitney Crolikow
Inna Churikova
Praskov'ya Alekseyevna Krolikova
Leonid Kuravlyov
USA ambassador
Lyubov Polishchuk
Jennifer, Ambassador's wife
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Ambassador's bodyguard
Irina Apeksimova
Step performer / Violinist from Conservatory
Sergey Batalov
lieutenant
Igor Ugolnikov
Piskunov Jean-Paul Nikolayevich
Lev Borisov
Mafiosi
Aleksei Buldakov
pilot
Yuriy Chernov
Suitcase carrier
Rolan Bykov
Head of Mafia / Brilliant's buyer
Vladimir Menshov
Russian President / Commentator on TV
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Kozyulski
Oleg Tabakov
Sukhodrishchev
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Father
Mikhail Kokshenov
Ambassador's bodyguard
Nonna Mordyukova
Registry Office Worker
Valeriy Nikolaev
Step performer
Vsevolod Sanayev
music lover
Yevgeni Vesnik
Doctor
Pyotr Merkuryev
Meloman
Oleg Efremov
Nikolay Grigoryevich
Boris Smorchkov
General
Sergei Artsybashev
Registry Office Worker
Viktor Gajnov
Kvazimodo
Vladimir Shiryaev
Yuriy Kuzmenkov
man with a goat
Inna Kara-Mosko
Carol's friend
Evgeniy Gerchakov
director of the orchestra
Arkadiy Koval
TV announcer
Yevgeni Aleksandrov
reporter
Valeriy Afanasyev
geologist Anatoliy Ivanov
Sergey Gabrielyan
Ravil Beliletdinov
Tatyana Kravchenko
Bronislava Rosenbaum
Vladimir Gusev
general
Ivan Martynov
mobster
Sergey Ruban
mobster
Nina Alisova
music lover
Klavdiya Kozlyonkova
passenger (uncredited)
Marina Golub
director of the Philharmonic
Aleksandr Ryzhkov
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Evgeniy Kuleshov
Aleksandr Gorbachev
Maxim Glotov
traffic cop
Anatoly Kalmykov
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