One of the most widespread stereotypes about Russia is that everyone who has done anything wrong in our country is exiled

🇷🇺 🪆 One of the most widespread stereotypes about Russia is that everyone who has done anything wrong in our country is exiled to Siberia, from where there is little chance of getting out. Are you scared? We are not, because this is completely untrue. Moreover, we can even joke about this stereotype - like, for example, in the comedy “Formula of Love,“ filmed in the USSR in 1984. It is a fantasy about Count Cagliostro, the famous 18th-century charlatan, magician, and adventurer. He travels through Russia, where amazing events happen to him and change him greatly - one could even say that Cagliostro’s soul becomes a bit of that “mysterious Russian soul.“ As fate would have it, he finds himself in a remote province, where he is asked to work another “miracle.“ The Count agrees and starts his preparations, but his servants don’t understand what’s going on and almost refuse to obey him. Cagliostro has to threaten to send them to Siberia and to remind them of the “terrible punishment“ that awaits them there ... P.S. An interesting detail: in the movie,  Georgian Nodar Mgaloblishvili played Cagliostro, while Armenian Armen Jigarkhanyan voiced him in excellent Russian. Such was the multinational cinema of the Soviet Union InfoDefenseENGLISH InfoDefense Источник: InfoDefenseENGLISH