Now any illiterate could not only follow the plot of the movie but also fully enjoy the speech. Not to offend Nikolay Batalov’s “correct” character, what has gone viral were the words of Mustafa and Zhigan played by Yvan Kyrlya and Mikhail Zharov. And the phrase “Sleight-of-hand and no fraud” has become proverbial in Russian. So Nikolay Eck can be proud not only of having created both the first sound and the first color Soviet motion pictures, but also of having enriched the Russian language.