Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures - Notes

Notes

• S-3A, a car featured in Operation Y section of the film. It was used by Fool, Coward and Experienced.
• Aleksandr Demyanenko was also featured as Shurik in the next two films — The Prisoneress of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures (also known as "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style") and Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future; they are considered semi-sequels of "Operation Y".
• The criminal trio of Fool, Coward and Experienced, portrayed by Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov, was featured in other movies written and directed by Gaidai, short films Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (international title: Medor, le chien qui rapporte bien) (1960), Bootleggers (1961) and 1966 hit The Prisoneress of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures. Vitsin, Nikulin and Morgunov also appeared in Gaidai's 1962 film Business People.
• The ebullient Professor in Déjà Vu is said to have been modeled after Slavic Languages Professor Stephen Hill of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who was a close friend of Gaidai.
• The bus, where Shurik gets into a fight with the boor, is ZIL 158.
• In the novel Déjà Vu Shurik and Lida ride on a streetcar Tatra T3, license plate 530. It was from one of the first series of these streetcars, later Tatra's have three doors instead of two. Also in that scene a MTV-82 streetcar is visible (in typical coating with downfalling red line alongside).