---
title: 'The Diamond Arm (1969)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Leonid Gaidai'
released: '1969-04-28'
runtime_minutes: 94
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-diamond-arm-1969'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062759/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Diamond Arm (1969)

1969 · 94 min · Comedy, Adventure, Music · Soviet Union

Original title: Бриллиантовая рука

## Synopsis

The Diamond Arm is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya. The Diamond Arm has become a Russian cult film and is considered by many Russian contemporaries to be one of the finest comedies of all time. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 76,700,000 cinema admissions in the Soviet era. The plot of the film was based on a real-life news item about Swiss smugglers who tried to transport jewels in an orthopedic cast.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Leonid Gaidai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-gaidai)
- **Screenplay:** [Leonid Gaidai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-gaidai), [Yakov Kostyukovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/yakov-kostyukovsky), [Moris Slobodskoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/moris-slobodskoy)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Aleksandr Zatsepin](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-zatsepin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Igor Chernykh](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-chernykh)

## Cast

- [Leonid Gaidai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-gaidai)
- [Vladimir Guliayev](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-guliayev)
- [Nikolai Romanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-romanov)
- [Yuri Nikulin](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuri-nikulin) as Semyon Gorbunkov
- [Andrei Mironov](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-mironov)
- [Stanislav Chekan](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanislav-chekan)
- [Nonna Mordyukova](https://cinepixo.com/people/nonna-mordyukova)
- [Alexandr Chvylja](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandr-chvylja)
- [Andrei Fajt](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-fajt)
- [Anatoli Papanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoli-papanov)
- [Svetlana Svetlichnaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/svetlana-svetlichnaya)
- [Yevgeniya Melnikova](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeniya-melnikova)
- [Leonid Kanevsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-kanevsky)
- [Nina Grebeshkova](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-grebeshkova)

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