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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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("The Island of Bad Luck")
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Ostrov Nevezeniya("The Island of Bad Luck")
Written by Aleksandr Zatsepin and Leonid Derbenyov
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It is a crime film with no cruelty, that presents a bright and very honest snapshot of the everyday life of an average soviet citizen and of his morale. The invasion of the capitalist valuables into the socialist society produces very funny situation. The film is not ideologically inclined: You feel sympathy towards both victims, criminals and police. You laugh both at human greediness, vices of the bureaucracy and the naivety of average Russians of that time. The film itself has influated the Russian language. Many of witty phrases from this film have already become proverbs.