An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.
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Title: The Diamond Arm (1969)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Yuriy Nikulin | ... | Semyon Semyonych Gorbunkov / Senya | |
| Nina Grebeshkova | ... | Nadezhda Gorbunkova | |
| Andrey Mironov | ... | Gennady Kozodoev | |
| Anatoliy Papanov | ... | Lyolik | |
| Stanislav Chekan | ... | Captain Mikhail Ivanovich | |
| Vladimir Gulyaev | ... | Lieutenant Volodya | |
| Nonna Mordyukova | ... | Superintendent | |
| Svetlana Svetlichnaya | ... | Anna Sergeyevna | |
| Roman Filippov | ... | Man in the Restaurant | |
| Grigoriy Shpigel | ... | Main Foreign Smuggler | |
| Leonid Kanevskiy | ... | Assisstant Foreign Smuggler | |
| Igor Yasulovich | ... | Dog Owner | |
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Maksim Nikulin | ... | Boy, 'Walking on Water' |
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Aleksandra Lisyutina | ... | Gorbunkov's Daughter (as Sashenka) |
| Aleksandr Khvylya | ... | Weeping Willow' Maitre dHotel | |
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Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers (a real smuggler - Gena - was also on board the same ship). So his arm gets bandaged with gold and diamonds. After he returns home, the gangsters are trying to get their stuff back, while the police try to catch them using Gorbunkov and his arm. Written by Boris Shafir <shafir@hsi.com>
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("A song about hares")
Written by Aleksandr Zatsepin and Leonid Derbenyov
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The scenes in the "Eastern city" were to be shot in Turkey. However, the director Leonid Gaidai decided to shoot this part of the film in Baku (Azerbaijan, USSR) due to limited financial resources. See more »Goofs
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. See more »Crazy Credits
The summary of the first part of the movie, written in an extremely small and blurry font, races through the screen in a matter of two seconds. See more »Soundtracks
Pesnya o zaytsakh("A song about hares")
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