The Diamond Arm

The Diamond Arm (1969)

Бриллиантовая рука

A cinematographic novel in two parts from the life of smugglers

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.

Date of release
1969-04-28
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (357)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Director
Leonid Gaidai

Casting

Interesting facts

The Diamond Arm is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya. The Diamond Arm has become a Russian cult film and is considered by many Russian contemporaries to be one of the finest comedies of all time. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 76,700,000 cinema admissions in the Soviet era. The plot of the film was based on a real-life news item about Swiss smugglers who tried to transport jewels in an orthopedic cast.

Production

American cars can be spotted in the Oriental city street scenes (which were actually shot in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR): a 1954 Chevrolet 210, a 1955 Buick and a 1951 Oldsmobile Super 88. This would have been an extremely rare sighting because the United States had sanctions on the USSR and did not sell cars within the Eastern Bloc.

The ship docked at the beginning which Yuri Nikulin’s character boarded at port was actually the 1938 German built MS Rossyia'; formerly the MS Patria of Hamburg - America Line with the fictitious name ‘Mikhail Svetlov’ (after the poet) is seen on its hull when leaving port.

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