Coward, Fool, and Pro
Coward, Fool, and Pro are a trio of comical characters, petty criminals from Soviet cinema, first appeared in the films of Leonid Gaidai. They were played accordingly, "Coward": Georgy Vitsin, "Fool": Yuri Nikulin, "Pro": Yevgeny Morgunov. Initially appearing in Gaidai's satirical shorts, they gained all-Union popularity after the films
Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures and Kidnapping, Caucasian Style,.
The exact moment of the creation of the trio is documented in the Mosfilm minutes: December 27, 1960, 17:30. At this moment the Mosfilm management approved the actors for their first common film, Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross.
In Moscow there is the dedicated to them.
Filmography
- 1961: Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
- 1961: Moonshiners
- 1965: Give Me a Book of Complaints
- 1965: Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures, segment "Operation Y"
- 1966: :ru:Сказки русского леса
- 1967: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style - the last film in which the trio were the main characters
- 1968: Seven Old Men and a Girl
- 1969: The Bremen Town Musicians and the sequels:
- *On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians
- *The New Bremen Town Musicians
- 1980: :ru:Комедия давно минувших дней
- 1982: :ru:Происшествие в стране Мульти-Пульти
- 1991: ; in this Ukrainian children's film the trio is played by Ukrainian actors, however it contains a cameo appearance of Yuri Nikulin, his last cinema role.
- 2014: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style!, a remake