It Can't Be!

{{Infobox film

| name = It Can't Be!

| image = It_Can't_Be.png

| caption = Film poster

| director = Leonid Gaidai

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| writer = Vladlen Bahnov
Leonid Gaidai

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| story =

| based_on = {{based on|Crime and Punishment, Fun Adventure and Wedding Event|Mikhail Zoshchenko}}

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| starring = {{ublist |Mikhail Pugovkin |Nina Grebeshkova |Vyacheslav Nevinny |Oleg Dahl |Svetlana Kryuchkova |Mikhail Kokshenov |Natalya Seleznyova |Evgeny Zharikov |Leonid Kuravlyov |Valentina Telichkina |Lyudmila Shagalova |Georgy Vitsin |Savely Kramarov}}

| music = Aleksandr Zatsepin

| cinematography = Sergei Poluyanov

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| distributor = {{plainlist|

Mosfilm
Experimental Creative Association

}}

| released = {{Film date|1975}}

| runtime = 92 min.

| country = Soviet Union

| language = Russian

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It Can't Be! ({{langx|ru|Не может быть!|Ne mozhet byt'!}}) is a 1975 Soviet anthology comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai.{{cite web|url=http://cinema.mosfilm.ru/films/film/1970-1979/ne-mojet-bit|title=Не может быть! :: Мосфильм|publisher=cinema.mosfilm.ru|accessdate=2014-10-08}} It consists of three short stories, based on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko: Crime and Punishment, Fun Adventure and Wedding Event.

Plot summary

= ''Crime and Punishment'' =

== Plot ==

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, Anna, and his brother-in-law. Anna Vasilyevna, his wife, decides that in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of their property, they must urgently sell everything that was acquired by "back-breaking" labor. In addition, Anna hastily divorces Gorbushkin and marries a neighbor, Vitaly Borisovich. And in the end, Gorbushkin, who is only called as a witness (a week before he still got arrested), returns home happily.

== Cast ==

Mikhail Pugovkin — Gorbushkin, store manager
Nina Grebeshkova — Anna Vasilyevna, Gorbushkin's wife
Vyacheslav Nevinny — Gorbushkin's brother-in-law, beer seller
Mikhail Svetin — Vitaly Borisovich Bananov, Gorbushkin's neighbor
Radner Muratov — militiaman
Lev Polyakov — investigator
Natalya Krachkovskaya — buyer of paintings
Igor Yasulovich — Lyolik, buyer of paintings' husband
Georgy Svetlani — beer lover
Viktor Uralsky — little man with a pig
Vladimir Gulyaev — the one-eyed furniture buyer
Eduard Bredun — assistant buyer of furniture

= ''Fun Adventure'' =

== Plot ==

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.

== Cast ==

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 friend 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

= ''Wedding Event'' =

In the final novel by the young man, Vladimir Zavitushkin, fails to offer a hand and heart, he comes to his own wedding, where he can not find a bride - before they met only on the street, and he memorized her in winter clothes. Attempts to discreetly find out who of the women present is 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 ==

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 Kivi — wife of Ivan Izrailevich
Gotlib Roninson — Ivan Izrailevich, one of the guests
Klara Rumyanova — one of the wedding guests

Soundtrack

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Translation	Original title	Transliterated title	Performer
class="wikitable"
It's not beer that spoils people	«Губит людей не пиво»	Gubit lyudei ne pivo	Vyacheslav Nevinny
Cupid	«Купидон»	Kupidon	Oleg Dal
Black horseshoes	«Чёрные подковы»	Chyornye podkovy	Robert Mushkambaryan
Everything is possible	«Всё может быть»	Vsyo mozhet byt'	Oleg Anofriyev
At the samovar, me and my Masha	«У самовара я и моя Маша»	U samovara ya i moya Masha	instrumental ensemble