Never Guessed and Didn't Expect

Never Guessed and Didn't Expect (1982) is a Soviet comedy directed by Viktor Titov — stream it online on iFILM. The ensemble cast features Lev Durov, Evgeniy Morgunov, Natalya Varley, and Alexander Demyanenko.

A donkey walks into a Soviet apartment. The family living there already had plenty to argue about, and now there's a donkey in the hallway that refuses to leave. The police come. The vet comes. The local troublemaker tries his luck. Nothing works. A film crew that happens to need an animal on set accidentally solves the problem. In the middle of all that chaos, the family stops fighting with each other. Titov keeps the film short and light, but the absurdist setup lands its point cleanly: sometimes it takes something genuinely ridiculous to reset what got stuck. Watch Never Guessed and Didn't Expect online on iFILM.