''Action, Manya!'' () is a 1991 Soviet

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directed by Roman Yershov.

Plot

Two scientists: the biologist-geneticist (

Yevgeny Vesnik Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (; 15 January 1923 in Petrograd – 10 April 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in World War II. He worked at the ...

) and the programmer Kostya (Sergey Bekhterev) wish to create a cyborg-

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to fight against the mafia. However, in the programming process a mistake happens: instead of superman they got super-Manya: the robot is given the form of a female glamour model about whom the programmer secretly fantasized. However, Manya ( Yuliya Menshova) despite her contrasting appearance is ready to carry out the initial plan, i.e., to combat world mafia and racketeers. And she successfully fulfills the task: neither bullets or by land-to-air missiles hurt her. However the mafia finds out, how to defeat the crime fighters: a real

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is presented to Kostya and he forgets about "Super Manya", and Manya is unable to cope with the latest achievements of the scientific progress. Nevertheless, everything ends successfully, crime is destroyed, but unfortunately this means the ens of the execution of the superwoman's program and she is about to be retired. The creators brighten up the last days of her existence with a deserved vacation.

Cast

* Yuliya Menshova — Manya *Sergey Bekhterev — programmer Kostya *

— biologist—geneticist Evgeniy Danilovich * Georgy Millyar — functionary Ivan Akimovich *Anatoly Rudakov — man who invited Manya to dance * Viktor Bychkov — Bychkov *

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— filmmaker *

Stanislav Sadalsky Stanislav Yurievich Sadalsky (; born 8 August 1951 in Chuvashia) is a Soviet and Russian actor. Selected filmography * ''The Twelve Chairs (1971 film), The Twelve Chairs'' (Двенадцать стульев, 1971) as ''Fireman in the theater " ...

— butcher Vasya *Semyon Furman — Alik *Sergey Selin — pilot *Roman Filippov — General *Anatoly Azo — Chief *Leonard Varfolomeev — restaurateur *Igor Dobriakov — mafia member *Sergei Polezhaev — Ivan Akimovich's secretary *Vladimir Rublev — robber *Sergey Tverdokhlebov — Cheese * Alexander Slastin — coordinator *Shukhrat Irgashev — episode * Karina Razumovskaya — episode *Vladimir Basov — entrepreneur at the market

Reception

The comedy was criticized for an eclectic collection of cliches of

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s and cliches about robots and artificial intelligence. Фёдоров А. В. �
Наше разное кино
— М.: ОД «Информация для всех», 2022.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt0101722 1991 direct-to-video films Direct-to-video comedy films Lenfilm films Soviet fantasy comedy films Soviet superhero films Films about androids Films about robots 1990s fantasy comedy films 1991 comedy films 1991 films 1990s Russian-language films