Three Plus Two

Three Plus Two (1963), a Soviet comedy by director Genrikh Oganisyan, is available to watch online on iFILM. Three Moscow friends have claimed a quiet Black Sea cove for themselves — perfect beach, shade, no neighbours. Then two women show up and declare the very same spot is theirs, producing a buried bottle of letters as proof.

Andrei Mironov, Yevgeny Zharikov and Gennady Nilov play the stubborn bachelor trio; Natalya Fateyeva and Natalya Kustinskaya are the two women who refuse to give an inch. What begins as a cold war of petty pranks thaws gradually into something neither side planned.

Oganisyan keeps the tone breezy and the summer sun constant. The film's real pull is the easy chemistry of the young cast — Mironov especially at his most charming — making it one of the most rewatchable Soviet comedies of the 1960s. Stream Three Plus Two (1963) online on iFILM.