sinful-2 I saw this movie because I saw the praising reviews here on IMDB. What did I think then. The Actors did a fine job. Camera work was B&W but fine and nice enough.Story? Well it is hard for me really to say a lot about the story without giving to much away. But we start finding out some insurance man that apparently are stealing cars. We much later in the movie find his motivation for stealing the cars and how he choose the victims. For me this came much to late. I saw really no logic in what was going on and when I finally found out it was kind of too late for me to be very interested anymore as I at this time just found the protagonist to be annoying.Comedy: There are some funny moments I would say but for me this would never be classified as a comedy.Who is this movie for? For me I can only see this movie being for people that use them as a time machine and see how the city and other stuff lokked like and was at that time.If not that much into the historical aspect then you can watch the movie while eating or folding clothes. You can find many more interesting and funnier movies both from Russia and other places to watch instead. In same line of movies I would say Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika (1965) is better.

Vadim Berman "Beware of the Car" is one of the icons of the old Soviet cinema.(Note: there will be spoilers because it seems that the viewers not familiar with the Soviet culture struggle to understand what the movie is about.)The film is both a comedy and an over-the-top thriller parody. It follows a modest insurance agent Detochkin who uses the insider knowledge about his clients to hijack their cars. Incidentally, Detochkin befriends the police detective who is leading the investigation of his cases.The twist is that Detochkin does not steal to profit, but donates all the proceeds to the orphanages, and his victims are only crooks and corrupt officials. So Detochkin is essentially a vigilante.The idea of an honest vigilante thief was unusual and original enough to carry the plot for most Soviet viewers. Otherwise, it is a light comedy, in the sweetly naive spirit of the times as expressed by a supporting character, Detochkin's fiancée: "You're thinking like a five-years-old child!" Much of the film is carried by mostly untranslatable jokes and comedic performances of the stars of the golden age of the Soviet cinema: Papanov, Mironov, Efremov, Aroseva. Smoktunovsky was undoubtedly one of the greatest actors who ever lived but seems to be miscast here: I will always remember him as Hamlet; he always carries this drama with him.A classic comedy, but sadly, I think most of it will be lost to the uninitiated. Hollywood could make a dumbed-down remake though, that might work.

Lee Eisenberg "Beregis avtomobilya" in Russian means "look out for the car". It seems that the title actually implies that cars become sort of a metaphor for our lives. The protagonist Detochkin (his surname implies "child" in Russian) is an insurance agent who steals cars from thieves and gives the money to charity. But then there's a surprise.What I mean about the title as a metaphor for our lives. Some people put all their money into their cars; they're complete losers, but at least they have cool cars. Moreover, it's often said that a person is his/her own worst enemy. In this sense, the danger to Detochkin posed by the average vehicle is nothing compared to what his own actions can do.Anyway, this is a pretty funny movie, a look at the Soviet Union in the mid-'60s. We even get to hear an American song in one scene! I suspect that they had fun making the movie. Worth seeing.

Andrei Pavlov By current standards it is really ridiculous to call it a "black comedy". "Death Becomes Her" and "Pulp Fiction" are black comedies. And among the Russian ones "Deja vu" is a good candidate. So, here goes problem number one. Being rather light-hearted it lacks colour badly (suppose they could make it in colour back in 1966). And sometimes it lacks style (the background voice making wise comments in a "TV news" manner is a downer). This is very subjective fault-finding but quite decisive to me. There are no complaints regarding the actors' performance and the story is fine with its "Robin Hood" touch. There are many memorable scenes ("Hamlet" performance, the Soviet shopping, a funny monologue about "our" Shakespeare, etc.) and tons of enjoyable sayings. Most these things are, unfortunately (or fortunately), can be easily understood by older Russian people (especially of older generations) only. As to people from other countries (and even younger Russian audience) – there will be some problems in catching its tune. Just to expand on this matter: for Russians, the movie is one good piece of entertainment, nostalgia, and a historical lesson (clothes, relations between people during the Soviet era, first businessmen a la "spekulianti", Soviet "drama clubs", etc.). For the rest of the world... - hardly. If you live in some sort of USA, was born there, have been living there your whole life, have just watched this movie and ready to give it a 10 right away with a frank heart, post me a few lines please.It is a good movie but not great. Upon the DVD box it is written: "popular videos". It really belongs to that class of movies - "Russian popular videos" that is.If it were in colour and without that bumbling voice behind the camera, the mark from my side would have been better.Quite objectively, it is 6 out of 10 (but there should be a place for this film in the national top 1000 of course). Thanks for attention.