Which of us does not like good Soviet cinema, and if these are also films by the famous director Leonid Gaidai, then all the questions are simply superfluous.
Let's talk today about the film "Private Detective, or Operation" Cooperation ", whose actors are well known to the audience.
History of creation
This film work is one of the late films of Gaidai. She was released in 1990. The director, having shot the film in the face of the day, spoke in a comic form about perestroika in the Land of Soviets. The tape brought to the stage the history of cooperators, in other words, speculators and petty traders who sought to earn their long rubles and, if possible, invest them in hard dollars.
Therefore, a vaudeville with a detective story was at that moment a very relevant tape. A lot of viewers watched "Private Detective, or Operation" Cooperation ". The actors of this film still recall the enthusiastic letters of the fans that they received.
The ups and downs of the plot
As always, the famous director uses a light but incendiary storyline on contemporary topics. The film begins with the fact that the young man Dmitry Puzyrev, having shown extraordinary abilities in the detective business, opens his cooperative on the search for criminals.
He is assisted by his friend Victor, who is the director of the Comfort toilet. But, as it turns out, Victor is connected with the local mafia, and his cooperative company is just a cover.
During the operation to expose Victor, Dmitry meets journalist Lena, who dreams of writing articles about prostitutes and new life phenomena. A turbulent romance erupts between young people, which only fuels the development of the plot.
As a result, the film turned out to be winning, its very title “Private Detective, or Operation“ Cooperation ”, actors, plot - all this speaks of the skill with which this work was done.
The cast of comedy
As always in his works, Leonid Gaidai used actresses and actors he liked. This is Leonid Kuravlev, and Natalia Krachkovskaya, and Nina Grebeshkova.
But, of course, new actors appeared in comedy - representatives of youth and the older generation. These primarily include the main characters performed by Dmitry Kharatyan, Irina Feofanova, Roman Madyanov, Mikhail Svetin and others.
The main characters of the picture were especially remembered by the audience. Young, ambitious, vibrant and talented. The audience wanted to believe that Dmitry and Lena are experiencing a real romance, and not just playing love. However, the further creative fate of the main characters of the movie has developed in different ways.
Main characters
The main actors of the film "Private Detective, or Operation" Cooperation "were close by age. However, Dmitry Kharatyan, who played the role of private investigator Dmitry Puzyrev, has already managed to prove himself in the cinema.
The young graduate of the theater university Irina Feofanova, who played the role of Lena Pukhova, was not so experienced. Despite the fact that she was not even trusted to voice the role ( Nadezhda Rumyantseva did this ), she coped well with her acting task.
After the release of the film on the screens, the fate of Kharatyan and Feofanova developed differently. Dmitry became an actor in demand in cinema, his cinematography is truly huge, in addition, he also acted as a singer. Today, he is also in demand professionally, despite the fact that you have to play not young boys, but wise men who have experience.
And Irina Feofanova did not become a famous actress. Perhaps the confusion that reigned in the Russian film industry in the 90s prevented this. Having starred in several films, the actress became the head of the children's theater studio, she continues to do this activity to this day.
Motion picture opening
Several more people starred in this film, whose work should be discussed in more detail.
In general, the film "Private Detective, or Operation" Cooperation, "whose actors received from Gaidai a kind of ticket to a big movie, is a comedy of the classical genre. Therefore, the talent of Mikhail Svetin, who played the role of Ivan Ivanovich Pukhov, chairman of the cooperative "Joy", the father of the main character, clearly showed himself here. This actor managed to embody in his role the naive purity of a simple Soviet man, and the good nature of a loving father, and the image of a "happy loser."
A symbolic role in the film of Gaidai also became for the young actor Roman Madyanov. And although he had to play a negative hero, his work itself was remembered by the audience.
Many liked the film "Private Detective, or Operation" Cooperation, "the actors and the crew with pleasure remembered the months of collaboration.
And, despite the fact that this comedy was not quite similar to Gaidai’s earlier films, she also found a place in his collection of films.
In this work, the director, with his characteristic brilliance, talks about the fact that the bureaucrats of the Brezhnev era managed to adapt to a new life. They became cooperators. However, their essence has not changed from this. Moreover, the situation in the country has only worsened.
Therefore, modern young viewers are happy to watch this movie under the obscure title “Private Detective, or Operation“ Cooperation ”, the actors and roles of which are so interesting and close.