Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Dzhentlmeny udachi
An Inharmonious Comedy
88 min
Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.
- Release date
- December 13, 1971
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Gennadiy Gladkov
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Cast
- Evgeniy Leonov as Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin
- Georgiy Vitsin as Khmyr - Gavrila Sheremetyev
- Saveliy Kramarov as Kosoy - Fyodor Ermakov
- Radner Muratov as Vasya - Vasiliy Alibabayevich
- Erast Garin as Nikolay Grigoryevich Maltsev - Professor
- Natalya Fateeva as Lyudmila - Maltsev's Daughter
- Roman Filippov as authority Nikolai Pitersky
- Oleg Vidov as Vladimir Slavin - Senior Lieutenant
- Nikolay Olyalin as Verchenko - Police Colonel
- Anatoliy Papanov as Chess Player
- Lyubov Sokolova as head of the kindergarten
- Pavel Shpringfeld as Prokhorov - Cloak Room Attendant
- Aleksey Vanin
- Vyacheslav Gostinsky
- Aleksandr Lebedev
- Yekaterina Mazurova
- Anatoli Yabbarov
- Georgiy Daneliya as (uncredited)
- Viktoriya Tokareva as (uncredited)
- Evgeniy Leonov as «Dotsent» San Sanych Belyy
Crew
- Aleksandr Seryy · Director
- Georgiy Daneliya · Writer
- Viktoriya Tokareva · Writer
- Gennadiy Gladkov · Composer
- Georgiy Kupriyanov · Cinematographer
- M. Renkova · Editor
- Boris Nemechek · Production designer