Crazy Money

Crazy Money

1981 · 82 min · ★ 5.3 · Comedy

Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love with local beauty Lidiya Yuryevna Cheboksarova. Wanting to meet her, he asks his new acquaintance Telyatev to introduce himself as Cheboksarov. Telyatev and his friend Glumov decide to play the mother of Lidiya, Nadezhda Antonovna, who wants to get a rich son-in-law, and recommend Vasilkov as a gold mining millionaire from Siberia. Savva Gennadievich begins to visit the Cheboksarovs house, but his provincialism and Lydiya’s intention to create a brilliant party due to their beauty prevent them from finding a common language.

Directed by Yevgeny Matveyev · Written by Yevgeny Matveyev

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

4h 2m together

Crazy Money

Victory

Both from Yevgeny Matveyev.

More from Yevgeny MatveyevSee all →

Mother and StepmotherMother and Stepmother · 1964
Mother and Stepmother
★ 8.51964
MovieDrama
Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ...
VictoryVictory · 1985
Victory
★ 8.31985
MovieWarDrama
30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.
The GypsyThe Gypsy · 1967
The Gypsy
★ 8.01967
MovieDrama
Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...
FuryFury · 1966
Fury
★ 8.01966
MovieDramaHistory
Hearing about the revolution in the hospital, the sailor Gulyavin goes to Petrograd, and from there with a detachment of Ukrainian volunteers he is sent to Ukraine. The troop is joined by cavalrymen under the command of the anarchist Lelka. The chief of staff, Stroyev, reproaches Gulyavin with negligence - you cannot take an untested detachment. However, the desperate courage of Lelka in battle with the White Guards gives Gulyavin not only respect for her, but love...
FathersFathers · 1989
Fathers
★ 7.51989
MovieDrama
Second half of the 1960s. Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...
Particularly Important TaskParticularly Important Task · 1981
Particularly Important Task
★ 7.01981
MovieWarDrama
Strategical factory should be evacuated. The movie shows how destinies of those working on the factory and their families are being broken. And yet - they have no choice, but to live.
SearchersSearchers · 1956
Searchers
★ 7.01956
MovieDrama
After the end of WWII engineer Lobanov is trying to introduce the invention he made together with his friend during the war.
To RememberTo Remember · 1993
To Remember
★ 7.01993
SeriesDocumentary
The RoadThe Road · 1955
The Road
★ 6.61955
MovieAdventureMystery
A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.
ResurrectionResurrection · 1960
Resurrection
★ 6.61960
MovieRomanceDrama
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Virgin Soil UpturnedVirgin Soil Upturned · 1959
Virgin Soil Upturned
★ 6.21959
MovieDrama
The movie is based on the the same name novel of the Nobel Prize In Literature Winner Mikhail Sholokhov. The action is taken place in 20-30-s years of the XX century in the Russian countryside going through an uneasy process of collectivization.
The House I Live InThe House I Live In · 1957
The House I Live In
★ 6.21957
MovieDrama
1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.
The Siberian WomanThe Siberian Woman · 1973
The Siberian Woman
★ 6.01973
MovieDrama
Maria Odintsova, a young engineer, is a leader, secretary of the district committee of a small district, which is beginning to acquire important economic significance: it is decided to build a large hydroelectric power plant here. The heroine's conflict with the head of construction arises because of their different attitudes to the possibilities of using and preserving natural resources.
Sport, Sport, SportSport, Sport, Sport · 1970
Sport, Sport, Sport
★ 5.91970
MovieDocumentaryComedy
Combining staged scenes, newsreel footage, and documentary episodes, the history of the development of sports is presented, showing the stadiums of Moscow, Philadelphia, Stockholm and Mexico City in the past and future.
Love in Russian 3: GovernorLove in Russian 3: Governor · 1999
Love in Russian 3: Governor
★ 5.81999
MovieDramaRomance
Former farmer V.P. Mukhin became governor. His enemies are trying to prevent him from signing an agreement with Belarus on the construction of a bridge. He is given 7 days to think about it. Alone and unarmed, the old man goes to a meeting with representatives of the criminal world...
Good MorningGood Morning · 1955
Good Morning
★ 5.71955
MovieDramaComedy
A quiet and shy girl Katya is assigned to the construction of a highway. The young workers accept the young trainee very warmly and help her in everything. In time Katya falls in love with one of them - the foremost excavator worker Vasya Plotnikov. He is a very cheerful, cheerful guy, the soul of the company and the favorite of all the girls. However, Vasya is preoccupied exclusively with his own person, revels in fame and success, paying no attention at all to the modest Katya.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter