Hello, I'm Your Aunt!

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Cover of the Hello, I'm Your Aunt! DVD, in the front Aleksandr Kalyagin as Babbs Babberley, on the back are Mikhail Kozakov as Colonel Sir Francis Chesney(left) and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Judge Kriegs (right)
Cover of the Hello, I'm Your Aunt! DVD, in the front Aleksandr Kalyagin as Babbs Babberley, on the back are Mikhail Kozakov as Colonel Sir Francis Chesney(left) and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Judge Kriegs (right)


Hello, I'm Your Aunt! (Russian: Здравствуйте, я ваша тётя!, translit. Zdravstvuyte, ya vasha tyotya!) is a Soviet 1975 musical comedy film directed by Viktor Titov loosely based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. Runtime - 98 min. Produced by T/O Ekran. The film was an immense hit; many lines of dialogue subsequently became catch phrases themselves.


[edit] Cast

  • Aleksandr Kalyagin as Babbs Babberley
  • Tamara Nosova as Donna Rosa d'Alvadorez (note - Donna Lucia in the play)
  • Tatyana Vedeneyeva as Ela Delahay
  • Valentin Gaft as Brasset, Lackey
  • Mikhail Lyubeznov as Charley Wyckham
  • Oleg Shklovsky as Jackie Chesney
  • Mikhail Kozakov as Colonel Sir Francis Chesney
  • Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Judge Kriegs
  • Galina Orlova as Betti
  • Tatyana Vasilyeva as Annie
  • Viktor Gajnov
  • Vladimir Korovkin
  • Nikolai Tagin
  • Anton Makarov
  • Anatoli Malashkin
  • Yuri Prokhorov
  • Rogvold Sukhoverko

[edit] Interesting facts

  • Original Donna Lucia in the film became Donna Rosa and the phrase "where nuts come from" became "where there are a lot of wild monkeys".
  • The film's title became a Russian figure of speech, exclaimed when somebody receives some shocking news that he or she can hardly believe (akin to the English phrase, "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!").
  • Famous soundtrack Love and poverty (Russian: Любовь и бедность) was based on the lyrics by Robert Burns translated by Samuil Marshak and features music by Vladislav Kazenin performed by Aleksandr Kalyagin.

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