It Can't Be!

«It Can't Be!» (Russian: Не может быть!) is a 1975 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. It consists of three short stories, shot on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko comedy «Crime and Punishment», «Fun Adventure» and «Wedding event».

Plot
In the first novel describes the complexity of the shop manager Gorbushkin living in Soviet times, the end of the 1920s on unearned income. Being called to the investigator, he thoroughly believes that this will not bring anything good. These thoughts go to his wife and brother-in-law. Anna Vasilyevna, who, in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of property urgently sell everything that was acquired by «back-breaking» labor. In addition, Anna V. hastily divorces with the main character and marries a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And Gorbushkin, who is only called as a witness (a week before he still got arrested), returns in a good mood back home.

The following short story of the film shows the intricacies of extramarital relations. Heading into the weekend supposedly to work, but in reality to his mistress, and sometimes hard to imagine that her husband's mistress could be lover lover friend, neighbor, friend and lover in the communal - a lover of your own wife. In the end, all six characters is purely coincidental, with interesting circumstances intersect together and gathered around the table, trying to find a way out of this situation, but in the end did not need and did not come. In any case, such a conclusion can be drawn from rolling in extreme caricature dispute sixes at the table.

In the final novel by the young man, Vladimir Zavitushkin, fails to offer a hand and heart, he comes to his own wedding, which can not find a bride - before they met only on the street, and he memorized it in winter clothes. Attempts to discreetly find out who of the women present his future wife, lead to unpredictable consequences - the bridegroom takes the bride (and she does have a daughter (and not one) - very little) for her mother.

Cast

 * Mikhail Pugovkin — Gorbushkin, store owner
 * Nina Grebeshkova — Anna Vasilyevna, Gorbushkin's wife
 * Vyacheslav Nevinny — Gorbushkin's brother-in-law, beer seller
 * Mikhail Svetin — Vitaly Borisovich, Gorbushkin's neighbour
 * Radner Muratov — militiaman
 * Lev Polyakov — investigator
 * Natalya Krachkovskaya — Lelik's wife, buyer paintings
 * Igor Yasulovich — Lelik, buyer paintings
 * Georgiy Svetlani — beer lover
 * Viktor Uralsky — little man with a pig
 * Vladimir Gulyaev — the one-eyed buyer-furniture
 * Eduard Bredun — assistant buyer of furniture
 * Oleg Dahl — Anatoly (a.k.a. Anatole) Barygin-Amurskiy
 * Svetlana Kryuchkova — Zinaida (a.k.a. Zinulya), Nicholas's wife
 * Mikhail Kokshenov — Sophia's neighbor
 * Natalya Seleznyova — Tatiana (a.k.a. Tanya) Barygin-Amurskya, Anatoly's wife
 * Evgeny Zharikov — Nicholas (a.k.a. Coca), Zinaida's husband
 * Larisa Eryomina — Sophia (a.k.a. Sofochka), Zinaida's girlfriend and «former ballerina of noblewomen»
 * Zoya Isayeva — Sophia's neighbor, wash clothes in the basin
 * Elena Volskaya — flower-girl
 * Georgi Yumatov — passer-by with a bulldog
 * Leonid Kuravlyov — Vladimir Zavitushkin, groom
 * Valentina Telichkina — Catherine, Zavitushkin's bride
 * Lyudmila Shagalova — mother of Catherine
 * Georgy Vitsin — father of Catherine
 * Savely Kramarov — Sergei Ivanovich (a.k.a. Seryoga), Zavitushkin's friend, womanizer and heartthrob
 * Svetlana Kharitonova — Elmira, Catherine's girlfriend, always says: «enchanting!»
 * Sergey Filippov — singer
 * Natalya Krachkovskaya — 1st guest
 * Igor Yasulovich — 2nd guest
 * Eve Kiwi — wife of Ivan Izrailevich
 * Gotlib Roninson — Ivan Izrailevich, one of the guests