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    Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter...
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  • Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    certain regions of the Northern Caucasus. The film was directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is the last film featuring the trio of the "Coward" (Georgy Vitsin)...
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    artistic styles in Soviet cinema. The comedies of Eldar Ryazanov and Leonid Gaidai of that time were immensely popular, with many of the catchphrases still...
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  • Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    menyaet professiyu) is a Soviet comic science fiction film directed by Leonid Gaidai in June 1973. In the United States, the film has sometimes been sold...
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  • Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993), Soviet comedy film director Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic...
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  • Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    приключения Шурика) is a 1965 Soviet slapstick comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, starring Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Georgy...
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  • The Twelve Chairs (1971 film) (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs...
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  • A Weary Road (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    romanized: Dolgiy put) is a 1956 Soviet historical romance film directed by Leonid Gaidai and Valentin Nevzorov. Filmed on the motives of Vladimir Korolenko's...
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  • The Diamond Arm (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by director Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei...
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    by Leonid Gaidai based on the famous novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future, a 1973 comedy by Leonid Gaidai. A...
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  • Bootleggers (1961 film) (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    romanized: Samogonshchiki) is a 1961 Soviet short comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. The trio make moonshine alcohol in a hut hid in a forest. At work they...
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  • for the first name Alexander Shurik (Gaidai) [ru], the protagonist in several Russian films directed by Leonid Gaidai All pages with titles containing Shurik...
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    Magi". Strictly Business is a 1962 Soviet comedy film, directed by Leonid Gaidai, based on three short stories by O. Henry: "The Roads We Take", "Makes...
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  • RSFSR (1991). He is best known for playing the character Shurik in Leonid Gaidai's movies. Aleksandr Demyanenko was born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union in...
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    in the 1962 Soviet black-and-white comedy film Strictly Business by Leonid Gaidai, the 1977 "The Ransom of Red Chief" episode of the ABC Weekend Special...
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  • is a 1992 joint Russian–American production comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai as his last film. Its title used in the plot as a password for secret...
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  • Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (category Films directed by Leonid Gaidai)
    neobychnij kross) is a 1961 Soviet short crime comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. A trio of petty criminals – The Coward, The Fool and The Pro go "fishing"...
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    known and loved for his roles in films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Gaidai, Mark Zakharov, and other filmmakers. He had a wide comedic range and...
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    performed in more than thirty films. She was married to film director Leonid Gaidai. In 1954 graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (workshop...
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    having played about thirty roles. In 1989, Madyanov appeared in the Leonid Gaidai film Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation. He also took part...
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    The Nile and the Life (feature film) 1968 The Diamond Arm directed by Leonid Gaidai (comedy) 1969 Liberation directed by Yuri Ozerov (historical drama)...
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    manner, a movie named The Diamond Arm was saved after the director, Leonid Gaidai, intentionally included a nuclear explosion at the end of the film....
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  • Eldar Ryazanov, Naum Trakhtenberg, Eduard Zmoiro, Vladimir Semakov and Leonid Gaidai. The film is a comedy almanac, which includes five short stories. Sergey...
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    known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. People's Artist of Russia (2003). Aleksandr was born on 10 March 1926...
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  • Haidai or Gaidai (Ukrainian: Гайдай), also transliterated Hayday and Gayday, is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Leonid Gaidai (1923–1993)...
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    (Coward), a member of an antihero comic trio in a series of films by Leonid Gaidai Fyodor Volkov, 18th century actor and founder of the first permanent...
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  • the 1973 film Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future by Soviet director Leonid Gaidai, starring Yury Yakovlev as both the superintendent and the tsar. Aleksandr...
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    the 1970s, two adaptations were made in the USSR: a film in 1971 by Leonid Gaidai with Archil Gomiashvili as Bender and a miniseries in 1976 by Mark Zakharov...
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  • "jumble" or "mishmash." It was directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov to the...
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    plays. Her notable cinema work includes roles in films directed by Leonid Gaidai, like Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures and Ivan Vasilievich:...
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