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Leonid Gaidai

Director, Writer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born January 30, 1923Died November 19, 1993 (70 years)
Leonid I. Gaidai (30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR and modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.
Known For
  • Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
  • The Diamond Arm
  • Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures
  • Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
  • Twelve Chairs
  • Bootleggers
  • Pyos Barbos i neobychnyj kross
  • Sportloto-82
  • It Can't Be!
  • Business People
  • Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili Na Brayton-Bich opyat idut dozhdi
  • Opasno dlya zhizni!
  • Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
  • Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya'
  • Borrowing Matchsticks
  • Zhenikh s togo sveta
  • Inkognito iz Peterburga
  • Po ulitsam komod vodili...
  • Dolgiy put
  • Trizhdy voskresshiy
  • Absolutely Seriously
  • Ubezhat, dognat, vluybitsya
  • Fitil

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