The Diamond Arm

A cinematographic novel in two parts from the life of smugglers

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

Adventure Comedy Crime

Yuriy Nikulin

(Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov)

Nina Grebeshkova

(Nadezhda Ivanovna Gorbunkova)

Nonna Mordyukova

(Varvara Pliushch)

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

(Anna Sergeyevna)

Anatoliy Papanov

Andrey Mironov

(Gennadiy Kozodoyev)

Stanislav Chekan

(Mikhail Ivanovich, captain)

Vladimir Gulyaev

(Volodya, lieutenant of militsiya)

Yevgeniya Melnikova

Andrey Fayt

(salesman of lottery tickets)

Nikolai Romanov

(chief of crime gang)

Grigoriy Shpigel

(head smuggler in Turkey)

Leonid Kanevsky

(head smuggler's assistant)

Viktoriya Ostrovskaya

Tatyana Nikulina

Serafima Kholina

(ведущая показа мод)

Roman Filippov

(visitor from Kolyma)

Nikolay Trofimov

(colonel of militsiya)

Apollon Yachnitskiy

(tour guide in Istanbul)

Lev Polyakov

(captain of the ship 'Mikhail Svetlov')

German Kachin

(radio reporter)

Igor Yasulovich

Oleksandr Khvylia

(Boris Savelyevich)

Georgi Svetlani

(member of the house committee)

Aleksandr Kozubskiy

(waiter in a restaurant)

Valeriy Kupriyanov

(police sergeant)

Ivan Vasilyenko

(smuggler in glasses)

Ivan Zhevago

(customs officer)

Viktor Uralsky

Kurban Mazanov

(traffic controller in Istanbul)

Aleksandra Lisyutina

(Gorbunkov's daughter)

Dmitri Nikolayev

(Gorbunkov's son)

Vladimir Brand

(episode (uncredited))

Vyacheslav Kovtun

(episode (uncredited))

Ermengeld Konovalov

(episode (uncredited))

Rafael Kotanjyan

(episode (uncredited))

Pyotr Krylov

(episode (uncredited))

Susanna Nazarenko

(episode (uncredited))

Maksim Nikulin

(episode (uncredited))

Pyotr Omelchenko

(episode (uncredited))

Leonid Pleshakov

(episode (uncredited))

Nikolay Pogodin

(episode (uncredited))

Lydia Prikhodko

(episode (uncredited))

Anna Timiryova

(episode (uncredited))

Ali Khalilov

(episode (uncredited))

Ekaterina Kharkevich

(episode (uncredited))

Feliks Yasyukevich

(episode (uncredited))

Leonid Gaidai

(episode (uncredited))