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Gentlemen of Fortune
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Gentlemen of Fortune

1971-12-13 · 88 min · ★ 7.8

Comedy · Crime · Drama

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.

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Directors
Aleksandr Sery
Production companies
Mosfilm
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Evgeni LeonovEvgeni LeonovEvgeni Ivanovich Troshkin / Dotsent
Georgiy VitsinGeorgiy VitsinKhmyr
Savely KramarovSavely KramarovKosoy
Radner MuratovRadner MuratovAlibaba
Erast GarinErast GarinNikolai Georgievich Maltsev
Natalya FateyevaNatalya FateyevaLyudmila, Maltsev's daughter
Roman FilippovRoman Filippovauthority Nikolai Pitersky
Oleg VidovOleg Vidovsenior lieutenant Vladimir Nikolaevich Slavin
Nikolay OlyalinNikolay Olyalinpolice colonel
Anatoliy PapanovAnatoliy Papanovchess player
Lyubov SokolovaLyubov Sokolovahead of the kindergarten
Pavel ShpringfeldPavel Shpringfeldcloakroom attendant
Natalya VorobyovaNatalya Vorobyova
Aleksey VaninAleksey Vanin
Zoya VasilkovaZoya Vasilkova
Vyacheslav GostinskyVyacheslav Gostinsky
Aleksandr LebedevAleksandr Lebedev
Roman FilippovRoman Filippov
Galina MikeladzeGalina Mikeladze
Yekaterina MazurovaYekaterina Mazurova

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