All the toasts of General Ivolgin performed by Buldakov have long become popular

All toasts of General Ivolgin performed by Buldakov

For the first time on Russian screens, General Ivolgin, performed by Alexei Buldakov, appeared in 1995, in the comedy film “Peculiarities of the National Hunt.”

The image of a gallant screen general, in which the features of a real general A.I. were visible. Lebed, brought the 45-year-old actor all-Russian fame in one day. In this film, the general and his friends “have a cultural rest” in the house of huntsman Kuzmich, drink decently and, of course, make toasts, which, according to him, should be short, like a command, like a shot. Subsequently, they sound like this in the film:

• Well, here's to the meeting!
• Well, for beauty!
• Well, for friendship!
• Well, for brotherhood!
• Well, for justice!
• Well, let's go fishing!
• Well, for art!

After its release, the comedy film gained extraordinary popularity. The film, directed by Alexander Rogozhkin, receives the prestigious Nika Award for best feature film, best director and best actor, which goes to Buldakov.

In 1998, the sequel to the film “Peculiarities of National Fishing” was released on the screens of the country, where General Ivolgin is not present.

Having had a little too much alcohol, the heroes accidentally end up in Finland. They return home on a Russian submarine. The events in the film are accompanied by a feast, where the general’s brief toasts are heard:

• Well, for reason!
• Well, for the homeland!
• Well, for your understanding!
• Well, for unity!
• Well, for respectable male silence!

It’s a rare bachelor party today without the latest catchphrase.

The audience liked the image of General Ivolgin, a real Russian man, so much that the filmmakers decided to continue the stories from the lives of famous heroes. Sequels appeared about the peculiarities of politics, winter hunting, as well as “Operation Happy New Year” in which toasts became no less famous:

• Well, don't let your head hurt!
• Well, for true women! And I assure you, we have a lot of them, and all over the world! Well, for women!
• Well, don't let it swerve to the side!

Later explaining the significant presence of alcohol in the film, the actor himself said: “Vodka is the most unique invention of our people. This is not just a strong drink among others. This is a nationality, I would say, a nationality. This is what unites us all and holds us back from final disintegration, and, naturally, if we drink this drink with appropriate culture and rationality.”

[edit] Characters

Hier sind wir zu Gast!..

[edit] Raivo (Ville Haapasalo)

A racial Finn, he came to hunt and get to know the mysterious Russian soul. I met a Russian hangover and a steep-sided milkmaid (by the way, played by the actor’s RL wife). It seems like a pacemaker. In general, he is more of an observer than an active actor. Phallomorphs a little less than throughout the entire film. Lives in Finland. Despite the disappointment, I nevertheless became imbued with the hunt. Alsoo, in the film, performs “Yak Tsup Tsop” [1] live and for the first time in Russian culture. In the second part it became Paradise m

o (CHSH, these are two different Finnish names).
Well, damn it, give it to me!

[edit] General "Mikhalych" Ivolgin (Alexey Buldakov)

A Russian general, stern, silent, but not mustachioed - but with a cigar and growls like a bear. Like the head of an “expedition”. He sits at the head of the table and pushes toasts in the style of “Well!.. Here’s to the hunt!” or “Well!.. For unity!” (and he is able to do this even in his sleep). He loves active recreation, playing the piano, and in general, he is very intelligent and courteous with the ladies. Also, never gets drunk (unlike the others).

He became Ivolgin only from the second part on the wave of popular love for General Lebed (who just then had a chance to become President of Russia, but outwitted himself, screwed up all the polymers and ended up getting killed with a helicopter). At the very beginning of “The Hunt,” when the car approached the military unit, you can clearly hear:

-Are you going hunting? - Yes, to go hunting, to General Buldakov.

[edit] Kuzmich (Viktor Bychkov)

Huntsman, in an eternal gray coat and hat with earflaps. He monitors the forest and makes excursion trips for everyone who has come in large numbers from the city - a Russian resort, meaningless and merciless. He meditates in a Japanese rock garden, gets drunk, writes books with his hands about those very Russian traditions, but doesn’t follow them at all, which, apparently, he regrets somewhere. He understands little more than nothing about hunting and fishing. But no one notices this. He drives a police UAZ while drunk, although in the morning he admits that he is afraid of the car like fire (in the second part, however, he drives without restraint). Bearded. Later he acquired a personal longboat (spoiler:

in the second part by the mediocrely fucked up cop Semyonov
)
. Judging by the photo, he has been to all sorts of Africa, where he never parted with his cloak and hat. Interestingly, without ever knowing any foreign languages, he easily found a common language with Raivo, and both, each speaking their native language, understood each other perfectly, which did not prevent them from speaking German during their visit to the milkmaids[2]. It must be an epic failure in the noosphere.

The creators of Red Alert 2 stole the image of Russian commando Boris from here, I guarantee it. There is an opinion that Kuzmich looks painfully like the postman Pechkin (“Three from Prostokvashino”). Also, there is an opinion that Kuzmich as such is actually one big reference to a legend as old as Napoleon’s shit.

The same monologue.

[edit] Lev "Lyova" Soloveichik (Semyon Strugachev)

An employee of the homicide department of the criminal investigation department of St. Petersburg (“Don’t worry. He’s tired. He works for the police, in the criminal investigation department” - Zhenya). Curly, wears a scarf on his forehead and sometimes agrees with the general. In moments of sobering up, he sometimes expresses indignation at the general drunkenness, which, however, does not prevent him from being a stopper after that. Practices unconventional hunting methods (with balloons). Contrary to popular belief, he is not identical to the character in the series “Deadly Force”: there Strugachev’s character’s name is Semyon Chernyga, although they didn’t bother too much, and in fact, this is the same person, fortunately both “Features” and “Deadly Force” have the same director - Rogozhkin. And yes, Bychkov-Kuzmich also migrated to “Deadly Force” in the form of the homeless man Pomerantsev.

[edit] Sergeant Semenov (Sergei Gusinsky)

The policeman, despite his uniform, is a fun-loving person himself (what if a cop is not a man in the gallery?). Covers up the rest of the company, uses administrative resources, and uses the army method to screw up the service pistol. Lover of philosophical sayings. Erudite. A policeman in uniform hunting with a service pistol in the forest—that’s a no-brainer.

[edit] Sergey “Seryozha, Olegych” Olegovich Savenko (Sergey Russkin)

Initials SOS. It’s like an entrepreneur, an office plankton who has come to take a break from the stuffy office. In wild, harsh nature this is clearly evident. He shamelessly fails, in the second part he even sits on a log in neutral waters while his wife is carousing in Cyprus.

[edit] Zhenya “Zenya” Kachalov (Sergey Kupriyanov)

Russian student in a cowboy hat; friend Raivo, who agreed to show the Finn Russian beauties and give him some customs to drink (he gave him vodka, which is the same thing). The whole film is a sort of Captain Obvious and, on the whole, boring. And the answer is simple - at that moment Kupriyanov had a new passion and he was not thinking about the role, but about something else. Does not appear in subsequent films of the series.

[edit] Bear

Young and stupid. He steals vodka, as befits a Russian bear. He is being raised by Kuzmich, so he becomes an alcoholic. We madly hate Levoy, who was bitten by him in a hangover.

[edit] A man in a police UAZ (Alexey Poluyan)

An acquaintance of Kuzmich. Apparently, he was very well-mannered and law-abiding - despite the terrible torment, he was never able to piss on the cop truck. I remember the cry of the soul: “Oooooh... Kuzmiiiiich, bitch... fascists... they kept me there all night! Uuuuuuuuuuuuu..." Also, this is none other than Captain Zhurov and the morphine doctor Polyakov’s bedmate in the hospital... Well, that’s the killer who was kicked by Danila Bagrov (RIP), as well as the voice of his brother, yes.

[edit] Cow

Kuzmich's animal is distinguished by its intelligence and intelligence (otherwise it will not survive in such conditions). During the course of the film, they first tried to transport her to a distant cordon in the bomb bay of a Tu-22M3 (and in some shots the Tu-22M3 becomes either a Tu-22M2 or even a Su-24), then they shot her instead of an elk.

All the characters in the film have a broad Russian soul. All. And even Raivo. This tells us that we are all truly brothers, that's all.

The creative path of the future toast lover General Buldakov

Buldakov Alexey Ivanovich comes from the Altai region. The artist’s youthful years were spent in Kazakhstan, in the city of Pavlodar, where he studied at school and studied in a theater studio. Buldakov’s creative biography originates in the Pavlodar drama theater troupe. Then work in Tomsk, the Belarusfilm theater studio, and the Moscow Art Theater.

Alexey Buldakov first appeared on screen in Yeralash. Later he was invited to star in the film “Through the Fire.”

The colorful “peasant” texture of Alexei Ivanovich turned out to be very popular, and viewers saw him in a number of films such as “Neverbelievable”, “Here is my village...”, “For the sake of a few lines”, “Ice Flowers”, “Burnt by the Sun”. And then came “Features,” after which the actor received national recognition and love.

[edit] Quotes

Oh my, why did I grab her?!!

• - Well, damn it, give it to me!
• “Just don’t go too far, otherwise they might mistake you for a spy.”

- What? - Eh, you don’t understand the peculiarities of the Russian hinterland.

• - Tsits!!! You guys will fight again, hot Finnish guys!
• - You are under arrest!

- Do you have a pistol? - Ahem... Then they are detained...

• - Semyonov, will you have some vodka?

- Vodka?! Vodka... I will.

• “If you want to live, you won’t get so upset.”

But you can’t see it from Finland!

• - But it’s not visible from Finland... (Raivo says in surprise, looking at planet Earth against the background of the night sky).
• - You can’t refuse Kuzmich!
• - Mikhalych, shoot!!!
• - Where is Ser-ryoga?!
• - Zenya, when will we go hunting? (Raivo while unloading boxes of new vodka)

- Now I do not know…

• - I repeat: if there is no car, then we went on a mission... Or for vodka... We have a lot of vodka, so we went on a mission. You were the only one in uniform; You don’t have a uniform now, which means you went on a mission. But not for vodka, because we have a lot of vodka...
• - Zenya, is it possible to hunt without vodka?

- Oh, I wish...

• - Kuzmich, what number did you fire?

- Five. - It went well. Just between us.

• And where is this bastard?

- YES, WHERE IS THIS SOOOOOO?!

• - What bastard shot?!
• - Forgive me, it’s really inconvenient for me to bother you, but my pipes are on fire... I’m completely dying... Please be kind enough to present a small amount. I'm sorry to trouble you.
• - You drink, right? And you drink, and you drink... And you drink, and you drink... You drank it all away... You think that Russia is over, right? In!!! In!!! (Shows the fig to those present). It is for you! You're afraid of something, right?! Are you looking for salvation in it?! What did you find in her? (raises the glass, drinks the contents) - Evil poison... (or “evil and poison”)
• - Semyonov! Drop the net! Drop the net!

- No. He won't quit. - Yeah. He won’t leave with vodka...

• (hesitantly approaching the lying cow) Leva! Where to start?

— First they drank off the horns.

• - the Russian elephant is the best friend of the Finnish elephant
• - Tomorrow we'll go hunting.. Everyone go to sleep!

[edit] Features of national fishing (1998)

Kuzmich in a new outfit.
The team's memories of the first and second parts are a must-see for fans. The fiercest winrar.

The same (almost) company as in the first film gathers, as usual, to relax in nature and get drunk in the trash. Fishing was chosen as the pretext, since Kuzmich had fish in his lands, as it were, apparently and invisibly. Having gone out to sea, because they have to swim to Kuzmich's lands, heavily loaded with vodka, the company is thrown off course by the drunken Kuzmich and ends up in Finland, in a private hotel house. While Kuzmich is sleeping off, his comrades are not giving a damn, thinking that everything is going according to plan. However, later, Kuzmich, who woke up, clarifies the situation that they had sailed to the wrong place and they had to somehow get out, because here you are not in the right place - they might even arrest you.

In a panic, having abandoned all their things, including 15 boxes of vodka, and simultaneously putting the general to sleep, who “could go on principle,” they load onto the longboat and sail to Kuzmich. There, in the company of the local prosecutor and other characters, plans are developed for the return of vodka, “meager” drinking parties are held (Kagbe is in a special position, oga) and even, you won’t believe it, a little fishing is done.

The film does not have the philosophical atmosphere of the first part (although there are inclusions of mysticism), just as there are no flirtations with retrospectives of the past. Instead, the film focuses on the number of lulz per minute.

[edit] New characters

• Prosecutor
  .
• Finn is the owner of the boarding house
  . A good man, but a little naive - he believes that the Russians left him vodka as payment.
• His wife
  . She remembers the war, so she’s not so naive. She knows that Russians don’t give up vodka. By the way, in fact - the entire Minister of Culture of Finland.
• Commander of a small submarine
  . Then he commanded a larger boat, but that’s another film.
• Commander of a missile boat
  . IRL commands everything - from a group of companies to a football club [1]

[edit] Quotes

• -Where is our car? Where is our Ford?! CATTLE!!!! What are you doing here???!!!
• -Did you mix up the ropes?

- Come on Seryozha, what you gave me is what I mixed up.

• - Kuzmich! Why are you always drawn to some kind of eastern mysticism? Why can’t we calmly, in our opinion, practice meditation calmly?

- If in our opinion, no health is enough!

• (rolls eyes) I'm not an enemy to my health! I know how to relax culturally! (falls)
• We relax with the concept. Sixteen boxes are just right!
• Of course, as a general, I don’t know how to give toasts... I’ll say it more simply: “Well!.. Goodbye, health.”
• Nnuu!.. Well, you understand me, guys!
• And just yesterday I felt: something is wrong. Clean, neat - everything is not our way! And nostalgia...
• - Seryozha! Did we really come here a hundred miles away to drink vodka?

- Of course not! - Why did we come here, Seryozha? - Catch fish! - HERE AND CATCH FISH!!! AND NOT A WORD ABOUT VODKA!

• I am sitting on a driftwood in neutral waters.
• - But this is ravioli.

- Well, they’re dumplings! - Yes, but they are still ravioli! - Mikhalych - at first they are pel-me-ni. And then everything else. Mikhalych, well, these are dumplings!.. - Hmmm, ravioli...

• Well done, Semenov! If it weren’t for you, we would have been making these ravioli until the morning!
• - Actually, if you look at the Moon for too long, you can become an idiot...

- Yeah.

• This is not a taxi, this is a warship! Yes, I can send an aircraft carrier to the bottom... Well, if I’m lucky, of course.
• A boarding crowbar with horseradish in all your holes! Liquid fuel oils under solid oil...
• - Well, this is it... Go and have a look.

- Why me right now?! - Chu! - Check! Sergeant Major Kurtov, check visually to see if the missiles have left!

• - What you are proposing is called sabotage, do you understand? In any country this is called a sabotage operation!..

— We will not dispute the terminology! We'll just take what's ours and back. Leva... - Seryozha... (and Seryozha takes out the booze from the portable refrigerator)

• (in the sea) Special signs?.. There was a lot of water, a huge number of seagulls and a mine was floating.
• (Ibid.):

- How are you, prosecutor? — It’s normal, but my feet are wet.

• — On the helm, a watch with a mechanical bracelet.

- Is this a sign? Wouldn't there be something brighter? - Why are there so many longboats out there, and you can’t choose ours?

• - The place here is remote, it’s better to approach here by boat, underwater.

- On the Malyutka. - How do you know that?! This is a state secret!!! - So last year we went to the islands to pick berries from it!

• - Don't pee in the glass!

- But this is exactly what I really want!

• - Hmm. Kuzmich, so what will intelligent people think after reading this?..

— Intelligent people, by the way, don’t go to transformer booths with flowers!

• “Nowadays it’s fashionable to keep strange animals.” Our district police officer, Kiryukhin, got himself a koala and is now planting eucalyptus on his plot. Koalas love eucalyptus leaves with passion. Kiryukhin, of course, tried to impregnate our domestic birch leaves with eucalyptus tincture, but it didn’t work.

- Hm-yes... In Rus', thank God, there are fools in stock for a hundred years.

• — Was it good vodka that you left?

- What else can it be like?!

• No, there are no fish here, there are no fish here!.. (show a cat dragging a fish).

- There is fish! You have to know how to catch!

• - Oh, notice, our whistles work in the same key. You can play some simple melody in one key. For example, I like the early Beatles.

- Semyonov, are you an idiot?

• Get some for yourself.
• - What do you understand about Naval humor?!
• The most fierce quote from the film: Kuzmiiiich! Found!

etc.

When the movie went on sale. The issuing company held a promotion on the market at the Gorbunov House of Culture. When purchasing a film cassette, you had to go to a special tray, present the cassette and they would immediately pour you 50g. vodka and were given a cucumber for a snack. The market has never seen more severe drinking.

[edit] Video

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[edit] Features of the national hunt IRL

One should not think that the subject series of films is as implausible as it seems. Domestic redneck VIPs (and army generals are not the limit, take it higher!) have really loved hunting since time immemorial, and in such sophisticated forms that an ordinary hunter from the north can only dream of. Just like in the film, the hunt for VIPs from time to time turns into epic fails, and even memes, such as Go Hunting, that deliver good quality lulz IRL.

For example, the so-called altaigate, with especially satisfying tales on behalf of a direct participant (Jack London, Lost and the subject are nervously smoking on the sidelines), has been generating multi-page squabbles all over the Internet for the second year, even with elements of a conspiracy theory. Let’s not forget Governor Esipovsky’s epic bear hunt, which ended in the bear’s victory with a score of 4:1; or the no less epic hunt of the gas oligarch Pavlov, who was shot by other hunters, mistaking him for a wild boar, something similar happened to the Kharkov politician Kushnarev, and in this case his own guard played for the team of animals.

[edit] Features of the Russian bath

Vobla against the background of Kuzmich and heifers.
Suddenly, Russian popular print, but as if in a veiled manner. And the director is not Rogozhkin at all, and they simply played on a well-known brand, at the same time inviting Bychkov as Mitrich. The plot is divided into three stories, the type of tales that Mitrich tells in the bathhouse to some redneck types with whores.

The second part, “Features of the bath policy,” is about the same thing. Fuck with humor, for example. There are, however, also well-known actors and actresses who are free to expose themselves and depict sex. Recommended for lovers of Orthodox erotica. For everyone else, strictly avoid on the way to the Privat studio.

[edit] Operation “Happy New Year!” (1996)

A half-baked story in which the characters end up in the hospital on New Year's Eve. Oddly enough, the craft turned out to be quite lulz... In places. In general, this is more of a prequel in places to the main storyline - the characters, keeping their names and roles, seem to get to know each other 7-8 months before the upcoming hunt. Some people really changed their professions here (Soloveitchik turned from an opera into an actor (amateur performance, crap), and Sergei Olegovich retrained from businessmen to paymasters (aren’t there such businessmen as paymasters?). Also, the milkmaid from the first part was noticed as a paymaster’s muse, and “Poluyan from trauma” - this is the same suffering man from the UAZ (from the same place).

[edit] Notes

1. More precisely, its folk version: the movie was shot in 1994, and the Loituma album was released in 1995, and their version has different lyrics.
2. There is an opinion that Kuzmich is not simple at all, but understands Finnish quite well, and speaks German for a reason

[edit] Features of national hunting in winter

A whole bunch of various kinds of inspections roll up to Kuzmich’s cordon: from the fisheries inspection, from the environmental department. And if the fish wardens are our guys - straight to the bathhouse, and a hundred grams each, then the environmentalists, consisting of the mighty Olga Valerievna and her puny adjutant Pyatakov (the well-known Vasya Rogov), are categorical opponents of a riotous lifestyle and other children of revelry, which brings despondency to the rest of the guests , including, according to tradition, General Ivolgin, who lodged with Kuzmich, and Leva Soloveichik, who came to hunt wild boars.

The plot is interspersed, as in the first “Hunt,” with small lyrical digressions in the form of a Chinese hunter wandering through the endless snow-covered Russian steppes and forests, trying to learn the secret of real Russian hunting.

The film did not have the success of the first and second parts and was no longer the same, but you can watch it, because it’s brilliant, and the lulz are still being delivered, although not on such a geopolitical scale as in the past (what is at least worth Soloveitchik’s balloon flight at hunting for wood grouse or an episode of hunting for wild boars).