Leonid GAIDAI
Леонид ГАЙДАЙ
Leonid GAIDAI
USSR, 1962, 85mn 
Black and white, fiction
Businessmen
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Деловые люди

 

 Les Hommes d’affaires

 Delovye lyudi

 
Directed by : Leonid GAIDAI (Леонид ГАЙДАЙ)
Writing credits : Leonid GAIDAI (Леонид ГАЙДАЙ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr SHVORIN (Александр ШВОРИН) ...Bib Titbol
Vladlen PAULUS (Владлен ПАУЛУС) ...Akula Dodson
Rostislav PLIATT (Ростислав ПЛЯТТ)
Yuri NIKULIN (Юрий НИКУЛИН) ...thief
Viktor GROMOV (Виктор ГРОМОВ)
Georgi MILLIAR (Георгий МИЛЛЯР)
Vladimir PITSEK (Владимир ПИЦЕК)
Aleksey SMIRNOV (Алексей СМИРНОВ)
Viktor URALSKY (Виктор УРАЛЬСКИЙ)
Georgi VITSIN (Георгий ВИЦИН)
 
Cinematography : Konstantin BROVIN (Константин БРОВИН)
Production design : Vladimir KAPLUNOVSKI (Владимир КАПЛУНОВСКИЙ)
Music : Georgi FIRTICH (Георгий ФИРТИЧ)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 23,1 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 27/03/1963
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
Based on the stories «The Roads We Choose», «The Red Chief», «The Whole World Kin» by O’Henry.
Tragicomic stories of unlucky business people. The heroes of each of the novellas try to get their affairs in order, but each time they end up in an unforeseen situation that reduces all their efforts to naught.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024

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