The plot follows a young Finnish man named Raivo who is in Russia to study the mannerisms and details of a typical Russian hunt.

Some of the events that transpired during these alcohol-related adventures include having a bear sneak into their banya and terrorize many of the main characters for a bit of time, a Militsiya officer loses his pistol, Lev blowing up a dynamite, missing cows, stolen Police UAZ's, and meetups with the milkmaids.

Another side story occurs when Kuz’mich attempts to transport a cow to his relative in a bomber for a bottle of vodka.

Stories like these, being stylized as traditional hunting tales, occur constantly throughout a vast portion of the movie and contribute to its slapstick humor elements.

Some of these events include a pineapple being picked from a hedgerow, Earth being visible in the sky, and a missing cow thought to be shot down during the hunt coming to life and attempting to run away.

[2] Alcohol was absorbed in minimal quantities, mainly in order to keep warm: many scenes, including banya, were filmed in freezing cold conditions.

"[5] The only scene shot with non-sober actors was an UAZ ride; this shooting was forced, since the car was lent to the film crew only for one evening.

[7] In Russia, everyone knows that "hunting" and "fishing" are just euphemisms of a completely chaste bachelor party in the fresh air, an alibi for men, each of whom has something from General Ivolgin and something from the Russian Buddhist Kuz’mich.National characteristics are also a big theme in the film.

There is a lot of camera work and direction that emphasizes the tradition of a hunt and it gives good insight into how the imperial past differs from the present.

The filmmakers were able to guess the mood of the film so accurately, which will cause a response from the viewer, that the result looked almost like a social order.

The era of Soviet cinema became a thing of the past, and Rogozhkin presented to the public, in fact, a new tradition of Russian comedy based on situations and techniques understandable to the modern viewer.

However, the heroes — a kind of social "masks" (General, Huntsman, Policeman, Foreigner) — allow to draw a clear analogy with the Gaidai film comedy.

[10] Alexey Buldakov, Viktor Bychkov, Semyon Strugachyov, Ville Haapasalo starred in sequels, became in demand in cinema, TV series and television advertising.

And if we talk about the genre of the film, this is a short course of non-scientific communism.In Russia the stable phrase "Peculiarities of national ..." is often used in the press, in literature.

[citation needed] An hour-and-a-half anecdote about five men who took guns, lots of vodka and a Finnish hunting historian with them, in essence, an attempt to portray a national soul, accompanied by the clink of glasses to melancholic absurdity.

Peculiarities also immediately found a home on Russian television where it often played simultaneously on several channels, especially around the New Year, thus joining such Soviet classics as El'dar Riazanov's Irony of Fate (Ironiia sud'by, 1976) as a feel-good movie par excellence.Critical reviews in foreign countries were a mixed bag of mostly positive reviews with some being partially negative.