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The Soviet films shot in the late 60’s and 70’s became a rich and valuable source of idioms and aphorisms that are still used every day, not only by the elder generations but even by those who were born long after the 1991. Most of these expressions, as shown by special dictionaries that were published in the first two decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, derive from comedies, the most widespread and praised genre under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev. The kinotsitata, a peculiar product of mass culture, represents a liminal (or marginal, according to Konstantin Bogdanov’s definition) phenomenon, which, apart from being an object of study of various disciplines – like sociolinguistics, paremiology and history of cinema – can be seen as well as an expression of popular thinking and creativity. This paper will especially focus on the latter aspect, thus linking it to the concept of post-folklore (contemporary urban folklore) coined by Sergey Nekljudov, and tracing the path of the mythisation of everyday life on the big screen, with its transcodification into true folkloric forms.