Gentlemen of Fortune is one of the best-known Soviet
comediesComedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece...
of all time (filmed at
MosfilmMosfilm is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein , to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production and the epic juggernaut...
). The stars of the film include famous Soviet actors such as Savely Kramarov,
Yevgeny LeonovYevgeny Pavlovich Leonov was a famous Russian/Soviet actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films...
,
Georgy VitsinGeorgy Mikhailovich Vitsin was a Soviet and Russian actor and People's Artist of the USSR .Born in St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, in 1918, Vitsin enjoyed a long acting career and continued performing until close to the end of his life...
, and Radner Muratov.
The film was
the leader of Soviet distribution in 1972 having 65.02 million viewers.
The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten director named Troshkin who looks exactly like a criminal called Docent (Доцент, literally
associate professor) that has stolen
Alexander the GreatAlexander III of Macedon, popularly known as Alexander the Great , was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history...
's helmet at an archeological excavation.
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Gentlemen of Fortune is one of the best-known Soviet
comediesComedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece...
of all time (filmed at
MosfilmMosfilm is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein , to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production and the epic juggernaut...
). The stars of the film include famous Soviet actors such as Savely Kramarov,
Yevgeny LeonovYevgeny Pavlovich Leonov was a famous Russian/Soviet actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films...
,
Georgy VitsinGeorgy Mikhailovich Vitsin was a Soviet and Russian actor and People's Artist of the USSR .Born in St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, in 1918, Vitsin enjoyed a long acting career and continued performing until close to the end of his life...
, and Radner Muratov.
The film was
the leader of Soviet distribution in 1972 having 65.02 million viewers.
Plot summary
The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten director named Troshkin who looks exactly like a criminal called Docent (Доцент, literally
associate professor) that has stolen
Alexander the GreatAlexander III of Macedon, popularly known as Alexander the Great , was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history...
's helmet at an archeological excavation. Docent and his gang are caught by police, but Docent is imprisoned in a different jail than his mates. Since Troshkin looks identical to Docent, the police puts him in prison with the real criminals to get information about the stolen helmet. He must pretend to be the real felon Docent, so in order to be convincing, Troshkin, a well-educated and good-natured man, has to learn slang and manners of criminals.
Film director
The film was directed by Aleksandr Seryj who just came out of a prison.
Georgi DaneliyaGeorgi Daneliya is a Soviet/Georgian/Russian film director, who became known throughout the Soviet Union for his "sad comedies" ....
assisted him and wrote the script. Seryj used his prison experience to design many situations in the movie, and he also introduced numerous expressions from Russian criminal slang known as
FenyaFenya or fenka is a Russian cant language used among criminals. Originally it was a cryptolanguage of ofenyas or ofenes, old Russian peddlers, and had a number of names. There are no convincing explanations about the origins of the words "ofenya" and "fenya"...
.
Quotes
- - Buzz off!
Troshkin (as Docent): - Right. Buzz off. Let him get out of here or I'll hit his horns off, tear his mouth, skew out his blinkers! All your life [you] will work for medicines! Sausage! Frankfurter! Radish! NebuchadnezzarNebuchadnezzar was the name of several kings of Babylonia.* Nebuchadnezzar I, who ruled the Babylonian Empire in the 1100s BC* Nebuchadnezzar II , the Babylonian ruler mentioned in the biblical Book of Daniel...
! Hamburg's rooster!
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