Three Plus Two

The film is set in mid-1960s Crimea. Three male friends from Moscow—a veterinarian (Roman), diplomat (Vadim) and physicist (Stepan) -- decide to go camping on the seashore. Once arriving at the coast of the Black Sea in their car, they select a deserted area to settle and set up their tents. Refusing all benefits of civilization, they enjoy bathing in the sea and preparing their own food from concentrates, until their privacy is invaded by two uninvited guests – a trainer and an actress (Zoya and Natasha) – who claim their rights to the young men's campsite. Deciding to make camp life as intolerable as possible for the three men, Zoya and Natasha set up camp in an attempt to purge the three friends from the seashore. Ultimately, the war for territory ends with a complete reconciliation of the two sides.[2]

The film was shot in both widescreen and fullscreen. For this reason each scene was shot twice.

• Natalya Kustinskaya as Natasha, a film actress.
• Natalya Fateyeva as Zarema "Zoya" Pavlovna, circus performer, lion and tiger trainer.
• Andrei Mironov as Roman Lyubeshkin, veterinarian.
• Evgeny Zharikov as Vadim, an English speaking diplomat.
• Gennadi Nilov as Stepan Ivanovich Sundukov, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.

Not credited

• The director Henrikh Hovhannisyan as the waiter of the "Chaika" (Seagull) restaurant.
• The remainder of the crew do appear in the title sequences of the longer, widescreen version of the film.
• Some film sites also reference further uncredited cast members such as those who appear in Stepan's flashback scenes of Son of Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lionel Atwill).

Whilst the majority of the film is in Russian, there are a few limited lines in English. Most of these are spoken by Vadim (the diplomat who presumably was stationed in England or the US). Interestingly, all of the lines are in the context of the film, they are reasonably well pronounced, which is enough to fob off the waiter in the restaurant. Amazingly, during a beach scene Zoya assertively responses back to one of the flirty one liners, albeit in Russian.

It is unknown if Evgeny Zharikov was able to speak English or if his lines were just learnt by rote.

As the film was partially filmed in the famous champagne area of the Crimea and the crew were housed in the chateaux of Prince Golitsyn,[5] it seems only fitting that in 2016, the ISSI wine group[6] released a set of inexpensive red and white wines to celebrate the film . Each bottle is wrapped in paper recreating of a scene from the film using one of the two couples as an illustration.[7]

There is also a “Three plus two” restaurant/guest house[8] in the village where the film was shot. According to photos on their website you get a reasonable view of the headland of Hoba-Kaya across Novosvetovskaya Bay, which are both seen in the movie.[9]

The large boulder[10] in the water close to where Stepan placed his chair and fished is now named the "Sundukov stone" in his honour.  In the scale of the whole of the dramatic Crimea coast this rock may be only a small feature. However it is one of the few, untouched and recognizable features left of the original beach and camp site.

• Three Plus Two at IMDb