Beware of the Car

• Innokenty Smoktunowski
• Oleg Yefremov
• Anatoli Papanow
• Olga Arossewa
• Georgi Schschonow
• Donatas Banionis

Caution, car thief! (Russian Берегись автомобиля / Beregis Awtomobilja translit. Beregis ' Avtomobilja ) is a Soviet comedy thriller from 1966, directed by Eldar Ryazanov.

Action

The insurance agent Yuri Detotschkin ( Innokenty Smoktunowski ) remains days away from his workplace in order - as he says - to visit the sick or the dying away and resident relatives. In reality, he steals cars he only slides, lubricated officials or other opaque shapes decreases, then the vehicles in other regions of the Soviet Union to sell and transfer the proceeds to children's homes. Both Detotschkins mother and his fiancée, the trolleybus driver Ljuba ( Olga Arossewa ), which he has told, he might bring on business trips, these trips seem suspicious.

Even the astute detective Maxim Podberesowikow ( Oleg Efremov ), which determines in the case of car theft, he slowly comes to the track. As luck would have it, Detotschkin and Podberesowikow play both in the same amateur dramatic theater, get to know there and become friends. In a Shakespeare production there is a showdown.

The film, in which a star-studded the former Soviet film art collaborated heard, still one of the most popular Russian-language film comedies.

In the DEFA film sales, he ran under the title "Auto - affairs ".