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Leonid Gaidai

Leonid Gaidai

Leonid I. Gaidai (30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR and modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.

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Movies Made By Leonid Gaidai (24)

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach (1993)

When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master. ...

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Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (1989)

The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner. ...

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Bird Market Incident (1988)

The wife (Nina Ruslanova) sells her husband (Mikhail Svetin), because he lost his job as a manager in connection with perestroika. ...

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Dangerous for Your Life! (1985)

A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible young man. ...

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SportLotto - 82 (1982)

Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket. ...

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For the Matches (1980)

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected... ...

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Incognito from St.Petersburg (1978)

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol. ...

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It Can't Be! (1975)

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, ...

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973)

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973. ...

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Gift for a Single Woman (1973)

To catch a couple of car thieves, a policewoman goes undercover as an old woman that recently has gotten a luxury car "Volga" - a plan that is bound to attract the criminals. For how hard can it be to steal a car from an old woman? ...

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12 Chairs (1971)

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bende ...

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The Diamond Arm (1969)

A 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. ...

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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina t ...

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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. ...

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Obsession (1965)

Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes. ...

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Strictly Business (1963)

Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit's sack and races across the plains until his horse breaks its leg. Forced to mount Dodson's stallion, he's ambushed and killed by "Shark" Dodson ...

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Bootleggers (1962)

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barb ...

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Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961)

This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this t ...

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Sovershenno seryozno (1961)

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry. ...

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Thrice Resurrected (1960)

In 1919, on the tow boat Komsomol went to beat the whites. ...

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A Groom from the Right Society (1958)

Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried. ...

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A Weary Road (1956)

The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov's favorite girl, Raya. A political exile is brought to the station. She ...

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Darling Friends (1954)

The story of a young Stakhanovite who was appointed a foreman in a women's team. ...

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Movies Starring Leonid Gaidai (9)

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach (1993)

When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master. ...

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (1977)

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters. ...

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12 Chairs (1971)

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bende ...

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The Diamond Arm (1969)

A 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. ...

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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)

The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. ...

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In Transit (1961)

An elderly man takes in his orphaned niece after the death of his younger brother. On the way home, on the train, in communication with various people, the true traits of his character are revealed. ...

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Thrice Resurrected (1960)

In 1919, on the tow boat Komsomol went to beat the whites. ...

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The Wind (1959)

Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to part ...

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Lyana (1955)

A group of Moldavian folk musicians compete for the top Soviet prize. Singer Lyana loves the flautist, but he's fallen afoul of the group leader. ...

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