Top 7 Soviet/Russian Сomedies

Russian people fond of soviet comedies. These films are popular because they are always about average person who believe in happy end. 

What is your favorite comedy?

1) 12 стульев
The best adaptation of the famous comedy novel about a con man and his elderly companion who travel around the USSR in search of a treasure hidden in one of the twelve chairs

2) Собачье сердце
Best satire on the 1917 revolution and communism, period. Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov. Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking".

3) Операция Ы и другие приключения Шурика
The movie consists of 3 short movies, each about Shurik - a nerdy student. "Naparnik" ("Partner"), "Navazhdenie" ("Strange Impression"), Operatsiya Y" ("Operation Y").

4) Иван Васильевич меняет профессию
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to the 16th ...

5) Бриллиантовая рука
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers. So his arm gets bandaged with gold and diamonds. After he returns home, the gangsters are trying to get their stuff back, while the police try to catch them using Gorbunkov and his arm.

6) Джентльмены удачи
Criminal comedy. A team of gangsters steals Alexander the Great's helmet. In order to locate it, an undercover kindergarten director who looks exactly like the gang band's leader joins them.

7) Полосатый рейс
A comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.