The Diamond Arm poster
Director Leonid Gaidai
Writer Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy

The Diamond Arm

Original Title: Бриллиантовая рука

Tagline: A cinematographic novel in 2 parts from the life of smugglers

Release Date: 1969-05-23

Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

In the southern town, a gang of "currency traders" is operating, led by the Chief and his assistant Kozodoyev. A modest Soviet clerk and an exemplary family man Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov goes on a foreign cruise on a motor ship, on which Kozodoyev also sailed, who must pick up diamonds in one of the eastern cities and transport them in a plaster hand. But due to a misunderstanding, instead of a swindler, an unsuspecting Gorbunkov falls in the appointed place, and a precious plaster is imposed on him. That's where it all starts...

Casting

  • Svetlana Svetlichnaya
    Anna Sergeyevna
  • Ivan Zhevago
    customs officer
  • Nikolay Trofimov
    police colonel
  • Anatoli Papanov
    Lyolik
  • Grigoriy Shpigel
    smuggler in Istanbul
  • Yuriy Nikulin
    Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov
  • Igor Yasulovich
    dog owner
  • Yevgeniya Melnikova
    Marya Nikolayevna
  • Leonid Pleshakov
    bearded man (uncredited)
  • Andrey Mironov
    Kozodoyev

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