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Leonid Gaidai

Director, Writer, Actor, Additional Credits
Died 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!
  • Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili Na Brayton-Bich opyat idut dozhdi
  • Business People
  • Opasno dlya zhizni!
  • Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
  • Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya'
  • Zhenikh s togo sveta
  • Borrowing Matchsticks
  • Inkognito iz Peterburga
  • Po ulitsam komod vodili...
  • Dolgiy put
  • Trizhdy voskresshiy
  • Absolutely Seriously
  • Ubezhat, dognat, vluybitsya
  • Fitil

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