---
title: 'Shirli-Myrli (1995)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vladimir Menshov'
released: '1995-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 136
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Russia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/shirli-myrli-1995'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114429/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Shirli-Myrli (1995)

1995 · 136 min · Comedy · Russia

Original title: Ширли-мырли

## Synopsis

Shirli-myrli is a 1995 farce comedy film of the early post-soviet era directed by Vladimir Menshov. Centered around a pursued con man, who steal a huge diamond. The movie, among other things, satirizes chauvinism, antisemitism and other ethnic tensions in 1990s Russia. Valery Garkalin plays multiple roles as identical twins who were raised believing they belonged to different cultures and races, looking down at one another's.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vladimir Menshov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-menshov)
- **Screenplay:** [Vladimir Menshov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-menshov), [Vitaly Moskalenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/vitaly-moskalenko)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Timur Kogan](https://cinepixo.com/people/timur-kogan)
- **Producer:** [Vladimir Dostal](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-dostal), [Aleksandr Litvinov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-litvinov-2)
- **Director of Photography:** [Vadim Alisov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vadim-alisov)

## Cast

- [Armen Dzhigarkhanyan](https://cinepixo.com/people/armen-dzhigarkhanyan)
- [Nina Alisova](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-alisova)
- [Oleg Tabakov](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-tabakov)
- [Irina Apeksimova](https://cinepixo.com/people/irina-apeksimova)
- [Vera Alentova](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-alentova)
- [Yuri Chernov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuri-chernov)
- [Marina Golub](https://cinepixo.com/people/marina-golub)
- [Alexandr Pankratov-Chorny](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandr-pankratov-chorny)
- [Oleg Yefremov](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-yefremov)
- [Yuriy Kuzmenkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuriy-kuzmenkov)
- [Igor Ugolnikov](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-ugolnikov)
- [Lev Borisov](https://cinepixo.com/people/lev-borisov)
- [Anatoly Kuznetsov](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoly-kuznetsov)
- [Alexey Buldakov](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexey-buldakov)
- [Leonid Kuravlyov](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-kuravlyov)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/shirli-myrli-1995
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