''Act, Manya!'' (russian: Действуй, Маня!, Deistvui Manya) is a 1991 Soviet

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directed by Roman Yershov.

Plot

Two scientists: the biologist-geneticist (

Yevgeny Vesnik Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; 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 pl ...

) and the programmer Kostya (Sergey Bekhterev) wish to create a cyborg to fight against the mafia. However, in the programming process there is a mistake: the robot is given the form of a female glamour model about whom the programmer secretly fantasized about. However, the resulting superwoman Manya ( Yuliya Menshova) despite her contrasting external appearance is ready to perform the initial plan: the combat against racketeering. 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 pin-up girl is presented to Kostya and he forgets about "Super Manya", and Manya is unable to cope with the latest achievements of the Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, everything ends successfully, crime is destroyed, but only with this the superwoman's program has ended and 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 *

Yevgeny Morgunov Yevgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov (russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Моргуно́в; April 27, 1927 – June 25, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, Merited Artist of Russian SFSR (1978 ...

— filmmaker *

Stanislav Sadalsky Stanislav Yurievich Sadalsky (russian: Станисла́в Ю́рьевич Сада́льский; born 8 August 1951 in Chuvashia) is a Soviet and Russian actor. Selected filmography * ''The Twelve Chairs'' (Двенадцать стулье� ...

— 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

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Lenfilm films Soviet science fiction comedy films Russian science fiction comedy films 1990s science fiction comedy films 1991 comedy films 1991 films 1990s Russian-language films {{1990s-USSR-film-stub