New Year is unthinkable without fun and good mood. And what can cheer up better than comedy? Especially if you watch it in a pleasant company (even if in the company of a pet).
We present you a list of the best Russian New Year comedies, compiled according to the user rating on Kinopoisk. It included both comedies from the times of the USSR and relatively new films of Russian production.
10. Railway romance
Our selection opens with a comedy in which the famous and beloved by many viewers starred: Leonid Kuravlev, Egor Beroev, Nina Grebeshkova and Olga Budina.
This is a good, positive, albeit completely unrealistic story about Muscovite Alexei, who for many years was hiding from his past, his long-standing love, and the New Year, during which the most fantastic desires come true.
Beautiful musical accompaniment, excellent acting, good humor - these are the components of the Railway Romance, thanks to which the movie received a deservedly high rating.
As one of the spectators wrote, if before watching you did not have a New Year's mood, then after watching it will definitely appear.
9. Poor Sasha
Money does not replace children with parental love. And young Sasha (Yulia Chernova) is going to rob a bank run by her mother (Vera Glagoleva) so that she turns from a banker into an ordinary loving mother.
And the main character Vova Berezkin (played by Alexander Zbruev) is a computer genius who is unlucky in life. By the will of the plot, he comes across an unsuccessful hacking of a safe, but it was not the police who grabbed him, but the 12-year-old Sasha. She needs an adult accomplice and offers Berezkin a plan to rob her mother’s bank. The kind and, in principle, harmless Vova agrees, not knowing that ahead of him is not the thorny path of a criminal, but New Year's miracles.
8. Kazan Orphan
The comedy, in which the main roles were played by three "mastodons" of domestic cinema - Oleg Tabakov, Valentin Gaft and Lev Durov - tells about a young girl Nastya who published a letter to her mother to a certain Pavel. And on New Year's Eve, three Pavels appear at once in Nastya’s house. Each of them is a bright and complex person, everyone wants Nastya to be just his daughter ...
Warm family atmosphere, good jokes, interesting dialogues allow this film to do without special effects, which are "clogged" with most modern films. It gives the impression of a true New Year's fairy tale for children and adults.
“Kazan Orphan” is the debut work of Vladimir Mashkov, who tried his hand in the role of director.
7. Old New Year
The neighboring apartments are inhabited by the families of the Sebeikins and the Poluorlovs. And in every family there is a spouse dissatisfied with life. On New Year's Eve, realizing that life is passing by, men slam the door and accidentally meet each other in the bathhouse, where they have to rethink their own lives.
A feature of this movie is its excellent dialogue. Those who are used to dynamic films with fast-changing scenes may be disappointed. However, those who are nostalgic for the atmosphere of the 80s and who like songs based on poems by Boris Pasternak will surely be delighted with the “Old New Year”. In this comedy there is a place for family showdowns, and subtle humor, and many comic situations and worldly wisdom.
6. Zigzag of luck
If the comedy was shot by Eldar Ryazanov, and Yevgeny Leonov and Yevgeny Evstigneev starred, then this is a win-win combination, simply doomed to success.
The main character of the film, Volodya Oreshnikov, dreams of becoming a famous photographer and buying a camera. And then a real miracle happens, he wins an amount unprecedented in Soviet times - 10 thousand rubles. That's just the money for which the bond was bought, he arbitrarily took from the mutual assistance cash desk. Enraged by such injustice, friends arrange a trial over the lucky one, forcing him to share his winnings with the team. And only the New Year is able to reconcile both sides of the conflict.
The “Zigzag of Fortune” ironically and comically reveals the topic of envy and justice, shows the life of a little man, with his dreams, joys and failures.
5. Come see me
On New Year's Eve, families gather to raise their glasses to the sound of chimes. However, the mother and daughter (Irina Kupchenko and Ekaterina Vasilyeva) did not expect any miracles from the New Year holiday. And their quiet life would take its course if on one of the New Year’s days the mother did not intend to die. And so she wanted her daughter to find her feminine happiness, and her daughter wanted it so that her beloved mother did not worry, that fate simply had to give them a chance. In the face of the hero Oleg Yankovsky.
4. Carnival night
This comedy was shot by Eldar Ryazanov in 1956. Its not rich scenery can cause a contemptuous smile in people who spend millions of rubles on catchy special effects, masking the wretchedness of the plot. However, the fun, spontaneity, young enthusiasm just beats from the "Carnival Night" fountain, and if you watched it once on New Year's, you will most likely be happy to watch it every year.
The plot focuses on a team of young club employees who are going to make the New Year celebration funny and interesting. They come up with funny numbers, but the club director, bureaucrat and bore Ogurtsov puts in “sticks to the wheels” for young talents. And in order to prevent Ogurtsov from spoiling everything, the youth is going to save the holiday by cunning.
3. Wizards
This is the only film with a clear fantastic bias in our comedy top 10. He gave us not only the pleasure of playing the popularly beloved actors - Alexandra Yakovleva, Alexander Abdulov, Valentin Gaft, Semyon Farada, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, etc. - but also catchy songs. For example, “Three white horses”, “The main thing is that the suit is sitting”, “It's time to sleep”. Moreover, Vitorgan, Abdulov and Svetin sang all the songs themselves, with the exception of Serenade.
Together with the "Wizards" we can wander along the corridors of the magic institute "NUINU", where the work to create a magic wand is in full swing. Her trial is scheduled for the evening of December 31. However, the deputy director, the insidious Sataneev, intervenes in the matter, who has his own views both on a stick and on the charming Alena, head of one of the NUINU laboratories.
2. Evenings on a farm near Dikanka
On Christmas night, evil walks the earth. Well, it’s not evil, but a small demon, not on the earth, but on the sky, and not so much walking, as sitting in the bag of the insidious witch Solokha. However, the son of Solokha, the blacksmith of Vakula, has more serious problems than the devil. He is in love with the beautiful Oksana, and she promises to marry him only in exchange for the shoes worn by the queen. And the evil, accidentally discovered in the bag, will have to serve good.
It is curious that the cartoon "The Night Before Christmas", about Wakula and the devil, was included in the list of the best New Year cartoons.
1. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Opinions were divided about the comedy about the adventures of the doctor Zhenya Lukashin, whom his very drunk friends accidentally sent to another city. Some consider The Irony of Fate a beautiful fairy tale about finding love on New Year's Eve, in which the most incredible miracles are possible. For them, this film is as indispensable an attribute of the New Year as the Olivier salad and the Christmas tree. Others believe that this tape is no longer comedic but dramatic, because for the sake of an early love for one woman, Zhenya betrayed another, with whom he had a relationship for two years.
And only one thing is undeniable - this picture has the highest rating on Kinopoisk.
By the way, on December 31, 2017, Channel One for the first time in ten years will not show the Irony of Fate, giving up this right to Russia 1. This was reported by "Lenta.ru", referring to the representative of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Victoria Arutyunova. A source close to the management of Channel One told Lente.ru that the show was canceled due to the expiration of its rights.
In the ranking of the best Russian comedies about New Year, films shot in the USSR are in the lead. And many of them were shot by the famous Eldar Ryazanov. It is possible to relate differently to the Soviet Union, which has become a thing of the past, but it cannot be denied that during its existence an excellent movie was shot, a good one, giving faith in a miracle, with good acting and dialogues that "went to the people."
In modern Russia, too, they shoot a lot of films, including New Year's ones. But they are not as popular as the good old Soviet comedies. And only time will tell whether this situation will change.
