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)
Direction Leonid Gaidai
Cast Archil Gomiashvili · Sergei Filippov · Mikhail Pugovkin · Natalya Krachkovskaya
7.1
39 votes
7.1
39 votes
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Leonid Gaidai
Cast Aleksandr Demyanenko · Aleksei Smirnov · Vladimir Basov · Emmanuil Geller
6.9
128 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)
Direction Leonid Gaidai
Cast Yuriy Nikulin · Andrey Mironov · Nina Grebeshkova · Anatoli Papanov
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)
Direction Leonid Gaidai
Cast Rostislav Plyatt · Georgiy Vitsin · Yuriy Nikulin · Aleksei Smirnov
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Sportloto-82
1982 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Leonid Gaidai
Cast Algis Arlauskas · Mikhail Pugovkin · Svetlana Amanova · Mikhail Kokshenov
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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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