Gentlemen of Fortune

Infobox Film
name = Gentlemeny Udachy

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director = Aleksandr Seryj
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writer = Georgi Daneliya
Viktoriya Tokareva
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starring = Yevgeni Leonov
Georgi Vitsin
Savely Kramarov
music = Gennadi Gladkov
cinematography = Georgi Kupriyanov
editing = M. Renkova
distributor = Mosfilm
released = fy|1971
runtime = 88 min.
country = USSR
language = Russian
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amg_id = 1:169263
imdb_id = 0068519

"Gentlemen of Fortune" ( _ru. Джентльмены удачи, translit|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.

Plot summary

The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten director named Troshkin who looks exactly like a criminal called Docent that has stolen Alexander the Great's helmet at an archeological excavation. Docent and his gang are caught by police, but Docent is imprisoned in a different jail than his mates. Since Troshkin looks identical to Docent, the police puts him in prison 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, a well-educated and good-natured man, has to learn slang and manners of criminals.

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!

External links

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* [http://russart.com/?movietrailer&mid=21 Trailer] and [http://russart.com/?moviepictures&mid=21 Screenshots]
* [http://www.perlodrom.ru/kino/gu/ Original quotes from the film with sound files]