EVENING BELL: A Film Show of the Ending Day On June 27, 1961, "Striped Trip" triumphantly hit Soviet screens—a comedy that, even 65 years later, still makes millions of viewers laugh, feel nostalgic, and recite its immortal lines. Why was this film so funny? Because director Vladimir Fetin served throughout the Great Patriotic War as a ground-attack pilot. Because actor Alexei Smirnov (watchman Knysh) fought from 1941 as a fire platoon commander and was awarded the Order of the Red Star (he was