Author Andrey Tolstoy

Andrey Tolstoy

Andrey Tolstoy is completing his PhD in Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he also received his MA and MPhil. His dissertation examines the concept of going “off-the-grid.” He teaches courses in the humanities and social sciences at Parami Institute in Yangon, Myanmar.

Operation Y (1965)

1965: Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures (Leonid Gayday)

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

The People’s Secret Speech: Operation Y and Shurik’s Other Adventures, 1965 Of the twenty highest-grossing films in the history of the Soviet box office, just under half were comedies. But only a few comedies...