The Diamond Arm (1969)
Brilliantovaya ruka
A cinematographic novel in two parts from the life of smugglers
94 min
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.
- Release date
- April 28, 1969
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Box office
- $2,258
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Cast
- Yuriy Nikulin as Semyon Semyonych Gorbunkov
- Nina Grebeshkova as Nadezhda Gorbunkova
- Nonna Mordyukova as Varvara Sergeevna Plyushch
- Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Anna Sergeevna
- Anatoliy Papanov as Lyolik
- Andrey Mironov as Gennadiy 'Gesha' Kozodoev
- Stanislav Chekan as Captain Mikhail Ivanovich
- Vladimir Gulyaev as Lieutenant Volodya
- Yevgeniya Melnikova as old lady
- Andrey Fayt as salesman of lottery tickets
- Grigoriy Shpigel as Senior Foreign Smuggler
- Leonid Kanevskiy as head smuggler's assistant
- Roman Filippov as Evgeniy Ladyzhenskiy - Guest from Kolyma
- Nikolay Trofimov as colonel of militsiya
- Apollon Yachnitskiy as tour guide in Istanbul
- German Kachin as radio reporter
- Igor Yasulovich as dog owner
- Aleksandr Khvylya as Boris Savelyevich
- Georgiy Svetlani as member of the house committee
- Viktor Uralskiy as policeman
- Yuriy Nikulin as Senya
Crew
- Leonid Gaidai · Director
- Leonid Derbenyov · Writer
- Leonid Gaidai · Writer
- Yakov Kostyukovskiy · Writer
- Moris Slobodskoy · Writer
- Aleksandr Zatsepin · Composer
- Igor Chernykh · Cinematographer
- Valentina Yankovskaya · Editor
- Feliks Yasyukevich · Production designer