Peculiarities of the National Hunt

Peculiarities of the National Hunt (Russian: Особенности национальной охоты , romanized: Osobennosti natsionalnoy okhoty ) is a 1995 Russian comedy film. It focuses on a young Finnish man named Raivo who dreams to analyze a classical Russian hunt so he engages with a group of real Russian hunters only to discover that real Russian hunting trips mostly consist of outdoors drinking in the woods.

The film was written and directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin whilst also being distributed by Lenfilm. It is a slapstick humor type of comedy and became a nationwide box office success almost immediately in Russia. It won the Nika Award and Kinotavr awards and was followed by several other sequel films with "Peculiarities" starting off each of their titles.