Underplayed Gems

Three Fat Men (1966)

Three Fat Men poster
Original title
Три толстяка
Directed by
Iosif Shapiro, Aleksey Batalov
Genre
fantasy film, adventure film, children's film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

In a fictional country, three wealthy rulers live in luxury while a group of rebels plots to overthrow them. A young girl named Suok and a tightrope walker named Tibul work together with the revolutionaries to free a captured inventor and bring down the cruel regime.

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What happens

Three Fat Men (Russian: Три толстяка, romanized: Tri tolstyaka) is a 1966 Soviet children's fantasy film directed by Aleksey Batalov and Iosif Shapiro based on the eponymous novel by Yury Olesha. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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