Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961)
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
Directors:
Leonid Gaidai, Eduard Abalov.
Writer:
Leonid Gaidai
![]() |
Georgiy Vitsin as «Трус» |
![]() |
Yuriy Nikulin as «Балбес» |
![]() |
Yevgeni Morgunov as «Бывалый» |
| Directing | Leonid Gaidai | Director |
| Camera | Konstantin Brovin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Nikita Bogoslovskiy | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Aleksandr Zatsepin | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Eduard Abalov | Director |
| Writing | Yelena Skidanenko | Script Editor |
| Writing | Leonid Gaidai | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ivan Pyryev | Creative Producer |
| Production | Lev Kushelevich | Production Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Natalya Meshkova | Costume Designer |
| Writing | Stepan Oleynik | Story |
| Sound | Semyon Litvinov | Sound Designer |
| Art | Konstantin Stepanov | Production Design |
| Camera | Savva Kulish | Director of Photography |