Table of contents:
- "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik"
- Dog watchdog and extraordinary cross
- Prisoner of the Caucasus
- The Diamond Arm
- Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession
Video: What were the names under which popular Soviet comedies were released in foreign box office
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When a film is released abroad, its name is often changed - this is a well-known fact. Yes, sometimes they change so that even the original meaning put into the name by the filmmakers changes. And Soviet films are no exception. In this review, you will find out under what names the cult Soviet comedies directed by Leonida Gaidai were released abroad.
"Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik"
The cult comedy "Operation Y" and other adventures of Shurik, which became in the USSR, was translated approximately the same way in different countries - "Operation Y".
Only the British and Swedes distinguished themselves, where the film for some reason began to be called "Operation Laughter" and "Operation skratt". Read more about how the comedy "Operation Y" and other adventures of Shurik was filmed. HERE…
Dog watchdog and extraordinary cross
Films by Leonid Gaidai were very popular not only in the USSR, but also abroad. But the names of their Soviet viewers, perhaps, would be very surprised. For example, the film "The Dog Watchdog and the Extraordinary Cross" was turned by the French distributors into "Medor, le chien qui rapporte bien", which translates as "A dog that does the Aport team well."
Prisoner of the Caucasus
The fate of the titles in yet another popular Gaidaev comedy - "Prisoner of the Caucasus" - was interesting. In the US, the film was called Kidnapping Caucassian Style, which translates to Caucasian Kidnapping or Caucasian Kidnapping. The Swedes were not original, having released a comedy called "Enlevering på Kaukasiska" on their screens, the same name sounded among the Finns.
The Germans called the Soviet film "Abduction in the Caucasus" ("Entführung im Kaukasus"), the Italians - "The Stolen Girl" ("Una vergine da rubare"), and perhaps the funniest thing happened, perhaps, the Hungarians - "Bride in a Bag" ("Menyasszony a zsákban "). What is left behind the scenes of the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus" read HERE…
The Diamond Arm
But the film "The Diamond Hand" was translated almost in all countries without changes.
Originality was shown only in Italy, where the title of the film was transformed into "Luxury cruise for a psycho", and in Colombia - "Run, run - you will be caught." Read more about how the legendary comedy about smugglers was filmed. HERE…
Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession
Perhaps in the United States in those years, time travel was associated with only one film, so the film based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov went under the titles "Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future" or "Ivan the Terrible: back into the future”(“Ivan the Terrible: Back to the Future”). In Finland, they remembered the literary source and the title of the film was translated with the restraint characteristic of this country - “Ivan the Terrible Bulgakov” (“Iivana Julma Bulgakov”).
Hungarian distributors were original, and the film was called “Hello! I am Tsar Ivan "(" Halló, itt Iván cár! "). Although, perhaps, they had so translated from Russian the phrase “Very nice! Tsar!".
Fans of domestic cinema will be interested to know how Shurik got a girlfriend, Lida, and how he looked chaste striptease for Gaidai from Natalia Selezneva.
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