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4 unusual facts about Gentlemen of Fortune


Gentlemen of Fortune

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

The stars of the film include famous Soviet actors such as Savely Kramarov, Yevgeny Leonov, Georgy Vitsin, and Radner Muratov.

The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten director named Troshkin who looks exactly like a cruel criminal nicknamed Docent (Доцент, literally associate professor) that has stolen Alexander the Great's helmet at an archaeological excavation.

Thief in law

Vory feature in the popular Soviet 1972 comedy film Gentlemen of Fortune - the first Soviet movie to depict criminal underworld in details.


Georgiy Daneliya

Georgiy Daneliya is the author or co-author of scripts to most of his films; he also wrote scripts for films by other directors, among which are Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены Удачи) (1972) (collaboration with Viktoriya Tokareva), Frenchman (Француз) (1988) with Sergei Bodrov and Hello from Charlie the Trumpet player (Привет от Чарли Трубача) (1998) with Sergei Dernov.


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