Gentlemen of Fortune

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gentlemeny Udachy
Film poster
Directed by	Aleksandr Seryj
Written by	Georgi Daneliya Viktoriya Tokareva
Starring	Yevgeni Leonov Georgi Vitsin Savely Kramarov
Music by	Gennadi Gladkov
Cinematography	Georgi Kupriyanov
Editing by	M. Renkova
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date(s)	1972
Running time	88 min
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian
IMDb profile

Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) (Russian: Джентльмены удачи, Dzhentlmeny udachi) is one of the best-known Soviet comedies of all time (filmed at Mosfilm). The stars of the film include famous Soviet actors such as Savely Kramarov, Yevgeny Leonov, Georgy Vitsin, and Radner Muratov.

The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1972 having 65.02 million viewers.

[edit] Plot summary

The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten's director named Troshkin who looks exactly like a criminal called Docent that has stolen Alexander the Great's helmet at archeological excavations. The gang is caught by police, but Docent is imprisoned in the other jail apart from his mates. Since Troshkin looks absolutely identical to Docent police puts him in with the real criminals to get information about the stolen helmet. He must pretend to be the real felon Docent, so in order to be convincing Troshkin, well-educated and good-natured man, has to learn slang and manners of criminals.

[edit] Quotes

- Buzz off!
Troshkin (as Docent): - Right. Buzz off. Let him get out of here or I'll hit his horns off, tear his mouth, skew out his blinkers! All your life [you] will work for medicines! Sausage! Frankfurter! Radish! Nebuchadnezzar! Hamburg's rooster!