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The Diamond Arm is a 1969 Soviet film directed by Leonid Gaidai, who also served as a screenwriter alongside Yakov Kostyukovsky. The cast includes Yuri Nikulin, Anatoli Papanov, Andrei Mironov, and Nina Grebeshkova. Aleksandr Zatsepin composed the music, while Igor Chernykh was the director of photography. Produced by Mosfilm, the film is written in Russian and has a runtime of 94 minutes.
The movie is classified as a slapstick, crime comedy, parody, and adventure film. Its narrative takes place in the Soviet Union and Italy, with scenes set on a boat. The work was distributed by Mosfilm and Netflix in video on demand format. It carries the tagline "A cinematographic novel in two parts from the life of smugglers."
Audience reception includes an IMDb rating of 8.2 based on 17,987 votes and a TMDb vote average of 7.8 from 327 users. The film is referenced by 70 other encyclopedia articles.
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7.8A 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.
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
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- smuggling (contraband)
- undercover agent
- espionage
- seduction
- police station
- broken arm
- dream sequence
- arm injury
- hilarious
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Ratings
IMDb
8.3/10
16,674 votes
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- Not Rated
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Leonid Gaidai
- Written by
- Moris Slobodskoy, Yakov Kostyukovsky, Leonid Gaidai
- Starring
- Yuri Nikulin , Nina Grebeshkova , Nonna Mordyukova , Stanislav Chekan , Vladimir Gulyaev , Andrei Mironov , Anatoli Papanov , Svetlana Svetlichnaya
- Cinematography
- Igor Chernykh
- Edited by
- Valentina Yankovskaya
- Music by
- Aleksandr Zatsepin
- Distributed by
- Mosfilm
- Release date
- 28 April 1969 ( 1969-04-28 )
- Running time
- 100 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Russian
- Director
- Leonid Gaidai
- Cast member
- Alexandr Chvylja
- Composer
- Aleksandr Zatsepin
- Production company
- Mosfilm
- Cinematographer
- Igor Chernykh
- Narrative location
- Italy
- Duration
- 94
- FilmAffinity ID
- 168224
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Diamond Arm (Russian: Бриллиантовая рука Brilliantovaya ruka) is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya. The Diamond Arm has become a Russian cult film and is considered by many Russian contemporaries to be one of the finest comedies of all time. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 76,700,000 cinema admissions in the Soviet era. The plot of the film was based on a real-life news item about Swiss smugglers who tried to transport jewels in an orthopedic cast.
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