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3 unusual facts about The Diamond Arm


Aida Vedishcheva

That was followed by such songs as "Volcano of desires" ("Help me") for the movie The Diamond Arm (1968), "Comrade" ("For the friendship was carried by comrade on waves...", 1970), "Forest deer" for the movie Way to go Nastia! (1972), and others.

Censorship in the Soviet Union

In this manner, a movie named The Diamond Arm was saved after the director, Leonid Gaidai, intentionally included a nuclear explosion at the end of the film.

Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov

In the Soviet-era film comedy The Diamond Arm (Brilliantovaya Ruka), the male lead takes a vacation abroad (a very rare occurrence under Communist rule) on an ocean liner named in honor of Svetlov.



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