Бриллиантовая рука (The diamond arm) (1968) |
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В южном приморском городке орудует шайка "валютчиков", возглавляемая Шефом и его помощником Графом. Граф по заданию Шефа едет в туристическую поездку за рубеж и попадает в компанию тихого и скромного экономиста Семена Семеновича. Далее события развиваются таким образом, что расстаться Графу с новым знакомым - это значило бы потерять то, за чем ехал... Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers (a real smuggler - Gena - was also on board the same ship). So his arm gets bandaged with gold and diamonds. After he returns home, the gangsters are trying to get their stuff back, while the police try to catch them using Gorbunkov and his arm. Semyon Gorbunkov, a friendly and naive husband and a father of two goes on a world cruise. Visiting different countries and cities, him and his new friend Gennady, whom he met on the ship, have fun seeing the world. Arriving in Istanbul, Gorbunkov takes a stroll and accidentally slips and breaks his arm. Uttering a blasphemous phrase (which turns out to be a secret code intended for Gennady, a contrabandist), he is taken to a nearby "clinic", where an arm cast, being a decoy for jewelery and diamonds inside is put on his arm. Back in the USSR, Gorbunkov informs the police about his mishap... A Soviet-era boss of shadow economy (referred to as "The Chief" (Шеф)) wants to smuggle a batch of jewelry into Russia by hiding it into the orthopedic cast of a courier. By a confusing accident the contraband lands into the cast of a broken arm of a "simple Soviet citizen" Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov. He lets the militsiya know about this, and the militsiya captain uses Gorbunkov as a bait to catch the criminals. Most of the plot are various attempts of the crooks to lure Gorbunkov into a position when they could have quietly, without a wet job, taken the cast off him.
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Director: Leonid Gaidai (Леонид Гайдай) 
