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Leonid Gaidai has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession.
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov
A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Nonna Mordyukova
Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Yuriy Nikulin
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Aleksei Smirnov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov
