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

(Lyolik)

Andrey Mironov

(Gennadiy Kozodoyev)

Stanislav Chekan

(Mikhail Ivanovich, captain)

Vladimir Gulyaev

(Volodya, lieutenant of militsiya)

Yevgeniya Melnikova

(старушка)

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

(prostitute)

Tatyana Nikulina

(our guide)

Serafima Kholina

(ведущая показа мод)

Roman Filippov

(visitor from Kolyma)

Nikolay Trofimov

(colonel of militsiya)

Apollon Yachnitskiy

(экскурсовод в Стамбуле)

Lev Polyakov

(капитан корабля 'Михаил Светлов')

German Kachin

(радиорепортер)

Igor Yasulovich

(dog owner)

Aleksandr Khvylya

(Boris Savelyevich)

Georgi Svetlani

(член домкома на общественных началах)

Aleksandr Kozubskiy

(официант в ресторане)

Valeriy Kupriyanov

(сержант милиции)

Ivan Vasilyenko

(контрабандист в очках)

Ivan Zhevago

(таможенник)

Viktor Uralsky

(милиционер)

Kurban Mazanov

(регулировщик в Стамбуле)

Aleksandra Lisyutina

(дочь Горбунковых)

Dmitri Nikolayev

(сын Горбунковых)

Leonid Pleshakov

(бородатый мужчина (в титрах не указан))

Nikolay Pogodin

(милиционер (в титрах не указан))

Maxim Nikulin

(boy with a net (uncredited))

Zoya Tolbuzina

(Анна Сергеевна (озвучка))

Lydia Prikhodko

(Old tourist lady)

Leonid Gaidai

(alcoholic and the hand that chokes Kozodoyev in his dream (uncredited))