Brilliantowaja ruka

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Movie
Original title Бриллиантовая рука
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1969
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Leonid Gaidai
script Leonid Gaidai, Jakow Kostjukowskij, Moris Slobodskoj
production Mosfilm
music Alexander Sazepin
camera Igor Tshernich
occupation

Brilliantowaja ruka (Бриллиантовая рука, German "The Brilliant Arm") is a comedy film from the Soviet Union. It was shot by Mosfilm and first performed in 1969. The director was Leonid Gaidai , and several stars of the Soviet film starred: Yuri Nikulin , Andrei Mironov, Anatoly Papanov, Nonna Mordjukowa and Svetlana Svetlitschnaja. "The Brilliant Arm" developed into a cult film and is regarded by many contemporaries as one of the most outstanding film comedies of all time. More than 76.7 million cinema admissions were sold in the Soviet Union.

The plot is based on an actual event - Swiss smugglers once tried to transport jewels in a cast .

action

The boss of a black market syndicate wants to have a number of jewels smuggled from abroad into the Soviet Union - in a plaster cast by a courier. The boss, Lyolik, sends a smaller crook named Gennady Kosodojew (played by Mironov) to serve as a courier. Kosodoyev then travels to the Orient on a cruise ship.

However, the sellers of the jewels do not know what the courier looks like; they only find out the code word with which they should identify themselves. Due to a mix-up, however, they mistook a fellow passenger on Kosodoyev's ship, the normal Soviet citizen Semyon Gorbunkov (Nikulin), for the courier. You put his arm in a cast and hide the diamonds in it. On the return journey to the Soviet Union, however, Gorbunkov tells the police that he is to serve as a smuggler, and the police chief, who disguises himself as a taxi driver, now uses Gorbunkow as a lure to blow up the syndicate.

Most of the plot consists of various attempts by the Syndicate to lure Gorbunkov into a trap, remove the plaster of paris, and retrieve the smuggled jewels. Meanwhile, Gorbunkov's wife begins to suspect her husband - that he has either been recruited by a foreign secret service or that he is having an affair.

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