The Diamond Arm
A cinematographic novel in two parts from the life of smugglers
7.8(337) 1969-04-28 94 minAdventureComedyCrime
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.
DirectorLeonid Gaidai
WriterYakov Kostyukovskiy
WriterMoris Slobodskoy
WriterLeonid Gaidai
Original Music ComposerAleksandr Zatsepin
Cast & characters
Yuriy Nikulin
as Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov
Nina Grebeshkova
as Nadezhda Ivanovna Gorbunkova
Nonna Mordyukova
as Varvara Pliushch
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as Anna Sergeyevna
Anatoliy Papanov
as Lyolik
Andrey Mironov
as Gennadiy Kozodoyev
Stanislav Chekan
as Mikhail Ivanovich, captain
Vladimir Gulyaev
as Volodya, lieutenant of militsiya
Yevgeniya Melnikova
as old lady
Andrey Fayt
as salesman of lottery tickets
Nikolai Romanov
as chief
Grigoriy Shpigel
as head smuggler in Turkey
Leonid Kanevsky
as head smuggler's assistant
Viktoriya Ostrovskaya
as prostitute
Serafima Kholina
as fashion show host
Tatyana Nikulina
as our guide
Roman Filippov
as visitor from Kolyma
Nikolay Trofimov
as colonel of militsiya
Apollon Yachnitskiy
as tour guide in Istanbul
Lev Polyakov
as captain of the ship 'Mikhail Svetlov'
German Kachin
as radio reporter
Igor Yasulovich
as dog owner
Aleksandr Khvylia
as Boris Savelyevich
Georgi Svetlani
as member of the house committee
