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The Diamond Arm
A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
1969 · Directed by Leonid Gaidai · 94 min · Adventure · Comedy · Crime · 27 frames
Tagline
A cinematographic novel in two parts from the life of smugglers
Crew
- Written by: Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy, Leonid Gaidai
- Cinematography: Igor Chernykh
- Edited by: Valentina Yankovskaya
- Music: Aleksandr Zatsepin
- Production design: Feliks Yasyukevich
Cast
- Yuriy Nikulin as Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov
- Nina Grebeshkova as Nadezhda Ivanovna Gorbunkova
- Nonna Mordyukova as Varvara Pliushch
- Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Anna Sergeyevna
- Anatoliy Papanov as Lyolik
- Andrey Mironov as Gennadiy Kozodoyev
- Stanislav Chekan as Mikhail Ivanovich, captain
- Vladimir Gulyaev as Volodya, lieutenant of militsiya
- Yevgeniya Melnikova as old lady
- Andrey Fayt as salesman of lottery tickets
Production
- Country: Soviet Union
- Language: Russian
- Studios: Mosfilm
- Box office: $2,258
- Themes: husband wife relationship, smuggling (contraband), undercover agent, espionage, seduction, police station, broken arm, dream sequence, arm injury, hilarious
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