

The Golden Calf
1968-07-08 · 174 min · ★ 8.0
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
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- Directors
- Mikhail Shveitser
- Production companies
- Mosfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Sergei YurskyOstap Bender
Leonid KuravlyovShura Balaganov
Zinoviy GerdtPanikovsky
Evgeniy EvstigneevKoreiko
Nikolai BoyarskyKozlevich
Pavel VinnikBerlaga
Mikhail KokshenovSekretar
Konstantin VoinovSkumbriyevich
Igor YasulovichCar Enthusiast
Radner MuratovZagirov
Yevgeni PerovPolykhaev
Tamara SyominaRaechka
Anatoliy ObukhovEvsyeev
Aleksandr Yanvaryovstudent v poezde
Viktor Baykov
Tatyana Kononova
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