If to Believe Lopotukhin...

1983 film

Grisha Evseev

Leonid Bronevoy
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Boryslav Brondukov

CinematographyAlexander KnyazhinskyEdited byN. KokaryovaMusic byGeorgy Garanian

Production
company

Studio Ekran

Release date

1983 (1983)

Running time

126 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

If We Believe Lopotukhin... (Russian: Если верить Лопотухину…, romanized: Esli verit Lopotukhinu...) is a 1983 Soviet two-part science fiction-comedy film directed by Mikhail Kozakov.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Vasya Lopotukhin who comes late for the mathematics exam says that he met with a representative of extraterrestrial civilization, or, more simply, a humanoid who flew on a ZAZ Zaporozhets without wheels and is very similar to the school headmaster, only he also wore a helmet. Vasya is forced to renounce his stories about the stranger at the general school meeting, but whether to believe him or not, each of the participants in this story decides for himself.

Cast

Grisha Evseev — Vasya Lopotukhin
Leonid Bronevoy — Yuri Leonidovich, school director / humanoid
Svetlana Kryuchkova — Alla Konstantinovna, teacher of mathematics
Boryslav Brondukov — Uncle Kolya
Vitaly Leonov (Stepan Ivanovich) and Ivan Ufimtsev (Ivan Stepanovich) — Friends of Uncle Kolya
Vasya Arkanov — Shafirov
Natasha Zbrueva — Malakhova
Anton Narkevich — Pavlov
Maxim Kondratiev — Petrov
Maksim Shirokov — Poluektov

References

^ "Энциклопедия кино — ЕСЛИ ВЕРИТЬ ЛОПОТУХИНУ". dic.academic.ru.
^ "Если верить Лопотухину...". Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema. Archived from the original on 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-06.