Brilliantovaya ruka (1968)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Leonid Gaidai

Writers:

Leonid Gaidai (writer)
Yakov Kostyukovsky (writer)

Release Date:

November 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Thriller

Plot:

Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is...

Plot Keywords:

Cruise | Black Cat | Police Investigation | Surrealism | Singing

Cast

Yuri Nikulin	...	Semyon Semyonych Gorbunkov / Senya
Nina Grebeshkova	...	Nadezhda Gorbunkova
Andrei Mironov	...	Gennady Kozodoev
Anatoli Papanov	...	Lyolik
Stanislav Chekan	...	Captain Mikhail Ivanovich
Vladimir Gulyayev	...	Lieutenant Volodya
Nonna Mordyukova	...	Superintendent
Svetlana Svetlichnaya	...	Anna Sergeyevna
Roman Filippov	...	Man in the Restaurant
Grigori Shpigel	...	Main Foreign Smuggler
Leonid Kanevsky	...	Assisstant Foreign Smuggler
Igor Yasulovich	...	Dog Owner
Maksim Nikulin	...	Boy, 'Walking on Water'
Aleksandra Lisyutina	...	Gorbunkov's Daughter (as Sashenka)
Aleksandr Khvylya	...	Weeping Willow' Maitre dHotel

Also Known As:

Бриллиантовая рука (Soviet Union: Russian title)
The Diamond Arm (USA) (video box title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Finland:S

Company:

Mosfilm

Trivia:

The film gained a cult status in the USSR after its release and after many years is still considered to be the number one comedy in Russia.

Goofs:

Factual errors: While the filmmakers took care to correctly dot the capital I in the pharmacy name CHIKANUK, the first two letters are wrong. The "ch" sound is spelled Ç (C-cedilla) in Turkish.

Quotes:

Semyon Gorbunkov: Slipped and fell, got a closed fracture, became unconscious, when I came through I had this cast on.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu (1973)

Soundtrack:

Ostrov Nevezeniya

Best of Soviet post-war comedies.

It's the mostly liked by the several generations of the Russian people comedy of Leonid Gaidai together with 'Operatsiya Y' and 'Kavkazskaya plennitsa', full of light irony and brilliant folksy humor of the late soviet time. The performance of the main actors (Andrei Mironov, Yuri Nikulin and Anatoli Papanov) is absolutely superb. Perhaps though it's not much appreciated amongst some high-minded intellectuals, which have their own cinema.