Brilliantovaya ruka / The Diamond Arm

Leonid Gaidai: Бриллиантовая рука / Brilliantovaya ruka / The Diamond Arm (SU 1969) starring Yuri Nikulin.

Бриллиантовая рука / Brilliantovaja ruka (translitteration FI) / (translitteration EN) / Briljanttikäsi / Briljanthanden. SU 1968, premiere 1969. PC: Mosfilm. D: Leonid Gaidai. DP: Igor Tshernyh – Sovcolor – Sovscope 1:2,35. Starring Juri Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov. 99 min. Vintage print with Finnish / Swedish subtitles by Ulla-Liisa Heino / Eirik Udd. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki 5 June 2008. – Colour fading in this print. – The protagonist takes an Adriatic cruise and in Istanbul is mistaken for a smuggler. As the police get wind of this they let him continue as their bait to catch the whole smuggler gang. A Russian answer to the Pink Panther films, a lightweight, ludicrous farce with satirical quips about the status symbols of the rising standard of life. One of the great box office hits in the USSR.