Leonid Gaidai

Leonid Gaidai

Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993; Svobodny) was a Soviet comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. He has been described as "the king of Soviet comedy".

  • Title: Leonid Gaidai
  • Popularity: 0.6841
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1923-01-30
  • Place of Birth: Svobodny, Amurskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR
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  • Also Known As: Leonid Gayday , Леонид Гайдай, L. Gaidai, Leonid Iovich Gaidai, Leonid Gaiddai, L. Gaydday, Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й, Л. Гайдай
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Leonid Gaidai Movies

  • 1961
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    In Transit

    In Transit

    1 1961 HD

    An elderly man takes in his orphaned niece after the death of his younger brother. On the way home, on the train, in communication with various...

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  • 1971
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    12 Chairs

    12 Chairs

    7.599 1971 HD

    A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds...

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  • 1993
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    There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

    There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

    5.81 1993 HD

    When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

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  • 1959
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    The Wind

    The Wind

    8 1959 HD

    Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth...

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  • 1965
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    Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

    Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

    7.501 1965 HD

    The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik...

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  • 1955
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    Lyana

    Lyana

    5.8 1955 HD

    A group of Moldavian folk musicians compete for the top Soviet prize. Singer Lyana loves the flautist, but he's fallen afoul of the group leader.

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  • 1960
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    Thrice Resurrected

    Thrice Resurrected

    5.2 1960 HD

    In 1919, on the tow boat Komsomol went to beat the whites. During the Second World War, during the heroic battle on the Volga on this boat were...

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  • 1969
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    The Diamond Arm

    The Diamond Arm

    7.8 1969 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

    Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

    5 1977 HD

    The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the...

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  • 1967
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    Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

    Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

    7.689 1967 HD

    Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist...

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  • 1973
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    Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

    Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

    7.921 1973 HD

    A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan...

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  • 1969
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    The Diamond Arm

    The Diamond Arm

    7.8 1969 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

    Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

    7.501 1965 HD

    The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik...

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  • 1971
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    12 Chairs

    12 Chairs

    7.599 1971 HD

    A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds...

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  • 1971
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    12 Chairs

    12 Chairs

    7.599 1971 HD

    A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds...

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  • 1975
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    It Can't Be!

    It Can't Be!

    7.303 1975 HD

    The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about...

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  • 1962
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    Bootleggers

    Bootleggers

    7.371 1962 HD

    This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three...

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  • 1978
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    Incognito from St.Petersburg

    Incognito from St.Petersburg

    5.9 1978 HD

    A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

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  • 1982
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    SportLotto - 82

    SportLotto - 82

    6.761 1982 HD

    Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.

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  • 1982
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    SportLotto - 82

    SportLotto - 82

    6.761 1982 HD

    Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.

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  • 1989
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    Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

    Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

    5.6 1989 HD

    The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy -...

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  • 1985
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    Dangerous for Your Life!

    Dangerous for Your Life!

    6.8 1985 HD

    A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.

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  • 1985
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    Dangerous for Your Life!

    Dangerous for Your Life!

    6.8 1985 HD

    A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.

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  • 1958
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    A Groom from the Right Society

    A Groom from the Right Society

    6.4 1958 HD

    Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried.

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  • 1961
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    Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

    Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

    7.691 1961 HD

    This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite?...

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  • 1969
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    The Diamond Arm

    The Diamond Arm

    7.8 1969 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

    Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

    7.689 1967 HD

    Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist...

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  • 1965
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    Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

    Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures

    7.501 1965 HD

    The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik...

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  • 1989
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    Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

    Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

    5.6 1989 HD

    The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy -...

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  • 1993
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    There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

    There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

    5.81 1993 HD

    When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

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  • 1993
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    There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

    There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach

    5.81 1993 HD

    When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.

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  • 1956
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    A Weary Road

    A Weary Road

    5.4 1956 HD

    The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go...

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  • 1965
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    Obsession

    Obsession

    7.5 1965 HD

    Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

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  • 1965
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    Obsession

    Obsession

    7.5 1965 HD

    Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes.

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  • 1954
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    Darling Friends

    Darling Friends

    1 1954 HD

    The story of a young Stakhanovite who was appointed a foreman in a women's team.

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  • 1960
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    Thrice Resurrected

    Thrice Resurrected

    5.2 1960 HD

    In 1919, on the tow boat Komsomol went to beat the whites. During the Second World War, during the heroic battle on the Volga on this boat were...

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  • 1988
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    Bird Market Incident

    Bird Market Incident

    1 1988 HD

    The wife (Nina Ruslanova) sells her husband (Mikhail Svetin), because he lost his job as a manager in connection with perestroika.

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  • 1961
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    Sovershenno seryozno

    Sovershenno seryozno

    6.9 1961 HD

    An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

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  • 1961
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    Sovershenno seryozno

    Sovershenno seryozno

    6.9 1961 HD

    An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

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  • 1961
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    Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

    Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

    7.691 1961 HD

    This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite?...

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  • 1962
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    Bootleggers

    Bootleggers

    7.371 1962 HD

    This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three...

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  • 1980
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    For the Matches

    For the Matches

    6.2 1980 HD

    In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

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  • 1980
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    For the Matches

    For the Matches

    6.2 1980 HD

    In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household....

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  • 1963
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    Strictly Business

    Strictly Business

    7.3 1963 HD

    Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the...

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  • 1963
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    Strictly Business

    Strictly Business

    7.3 1963 HD

    Three stories based on O. Henry novels. (1) Bob Tidball recovers $30,000 in pristine credit cards from a bandit’s sack and races across the...

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  • 1978
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    Incognito from St.Petersburg

    Incognito from St.Petersburg

    5.9 1978 HD

    A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

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  • 1978
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    Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

    Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

    6.2 1978 HD

    An omnibus of comical shorts.

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  • 1981
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    Heirloom

    Heirloom

    1 1981 HD

    About life insurance and the cost of a wife.

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  • 1973
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    Gift for a Single Woman

    Gift for a Single Woman

    3.7 1973 HD

    To catch a couple of car thieves, a policewoman goes undercover as an old woman that recently has gotten a luxury car "Volga" - a plan that is bound...

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  • 1973
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    Black Gloves

    Black Gloves

    1 1973 HD

    A short film version of Leonid Gaidai's "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" on an old, silent 8 mm film for home cinema projectors.

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  • 1973
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    Black Gloves

    Black Gloves

    1 1973 HD

    A short film version of Leonid Gaidai's "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" on an old, silent 8 mm film for home cinema projectors.

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  • 1973
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    Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

    Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession

    7.921 1973 HD

    A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan...

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  • 1975
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    It Can't Be!

    It Can't Be!

    7.303 1975 HD

    The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about...

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  • 2005
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    Как уходили кумиры

    Как уходили кумиры

    8.5 2005 HD

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  • 1970
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    Как уходили кумиры

    Как уходили кумиры

    7.6 1970 HD

    Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at...

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