The Diamond Arm
April 28, 1969
Overview
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.
Cast and crew
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Leonid Gaidai
Director
Yuriy Nikulin
Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov
Nina Grebeshkova
Nadezhda Ivanovna Gorbunkova
Nonna Mordyukova
Varvara Pliushch
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Anna Sergeyevna
Anatoliy Papanov
Lyolik
Andrey Mironov
Gennadiy Kozodoyev
Stanislav Chekan
Mikhail Ivanovich
Vladimir Gulyaev
Volodya
Yevgeniya Melnikova
old lady
Andrey Fayt
salesman of lottery tickets
Nikolai Romanov
chief
Grigoriy Shpigel
head smuggler in Turkey
Leonid Kanevsky
head smuggler's assistant
Viktoriya Ostrovskaya
prostitute
Serafima Kholina
fashion show host
Tatyana Nikulina
our guide
Roman Filippov
visitor from Kolyma
Nikolay Trofimov
colonel of militsiya
Apollon Yachnitskiy
tour guide in Istanbul
Lev Polyakov
captain of the ship 'Mikhail Svetlov'
German Kachin
radio reporter
Igor Yasulovich
dog owner
Aleksandr Khvylia
Boris Savelyevich
Georgi Svetlani
member of the house committee
Aleksandr Kozubskiy
waiter in a restaurant
VK
Valeriy Kupriyanov
police sergeant
IV
Ivan Vasilyenko
smuggler in glasses
Ivan Zhevago
customs officer
Viktor Uralsky
policeman
KM
Kurban Mazanov
traffic controller in Istanbul
AL
Aleksandra Lisyutina
Gorbunkov's daughter
DN
Dmitri Nikolayev
Gorbunkov's son
VB
Vladimir Brand
(uncredited)
VK
Vyacheslav Kovtun
(uncredited)
Ermengeld Konovalov
(uncredited)
Rafael Kotanjyan
(uncredited)
PK
Pyotr Krylov
(uncredited)
SN
Susanna Nazarenko
(uncredited)
MN
Maksim Nikulin
(uncredited)
Pyotr Omelchenko
(uncredited)
Leonid Pleshakov
(uncredited)
Nikolay Pogodin
(uncredited)
LP
Lydia Prikhodko
(uncredited)
AT
Anna Timiryova
(uncredited)
AK
Ali Khalilov
(uncredited)
EK
Ekaterina Kharkevich
(uncredited)
Feliks Yasyukevich
(uncredited)
Leonid Gaidai
drunkard (uncredited)
Zoya Tolbuzina
Anna Sergeyevna (voice) (uncredited)
KT
Konstantin Tyrtov
chief (voice) (uncredited)
Klara Rumyanova
Gorbunkov's daughter (voice) (uncredited)
Georgiy Vitsin
drunkard (voice) (uncredited)