Screenplay: Leonid Gaidai

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Leonid Gaidai. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Twelve Chairs

1971 · Movie · 161 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

7.1

39 votes

7.1

39 votes

6.9

128 votes

Kidnapping Caucassian Style

1967 · Movie · 82 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Aleksandr Demyanenko · Natalya Varley · Ruslan Akhmetov · Yuriy Nikulin

Plot In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication...

6.7

133 votes

6.7

133 votes

The Diamond Arm

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

6.6

153 votes

6.6

153 votes

Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

1973 · Movie · 93 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Aleksandr Demyanenko · Yuriy Yakovlev · Leonid Kuravlyov · Natalya Krachkovskaya

Plot By accident, an apartment complex manager and a petty burglar are transferred to the 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.

6.3

225 votes

6.3

225 votes

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (S)

1961 · Movie · 14 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Georgiy Vitsin · Yuriy Nikulin · Evgeniy Morgunov

Plot Three friends and a dog jog in Russian woodlands.

5.9

22 votes

5.9

22 votes

Bootleggers (S)

1962 · Movie · 20 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Georgiy Vitsin · Yuriy Nikulin · Evgeniy Morgunov

Plot The trio of Fool, Coward, and Experienced decides to get rich with the help of their samogon-making apparatus. The making of samogon goes well, and towards the end of their...

5.9

31 votes

5.9

31 votes

Borrowing Matchsticks

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai · Risto Orko

Cast Evgeni Leonov · Vyacheslav Nevinnyy · Rita Polster · Ritva Valkama

Plot We are in Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact. Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. That trip takes a little longer...

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It Can't Be!

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Mikhail Pugovkin · Nina Grebeshkova · Vyacheslav Nevinnyy · Mikhail Svetin

Plot The movie includes three diffirent skits, including different actors. The first skit is about a store owner who steals goods from himself. He is arrested and brought to court, to...

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Business People

1962 · Movie · 84 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Sportloto-82

1982 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Dangerous for Your Life!

1985 · Movie · 93 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Leonid Gaidai

Cast Leonid Kuravlyov · Larisa Udovichenko · Tatyana Kravchenko · Georgiy Vitsin

Plot Spartak Molodtsov is a man who can not pass through. Because of this he always gets into trouble.

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