Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.
- Released
- 1971-12-13
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Aleksandr Sery
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 from 286 votes
Cast
- Evgeni Leonov as Evgeni Ivanovich Troshkin / Dotsent
- Georgiy Vitsin as Khmyr
- Savely Kramarov as Kosoy
- Radner Muratov as Alibaba
- Erast Garin as Nikolai Georgievich Maltsev
- Natalya Fateyeva as Lyudmila, Maltsev's daughter
- Roman Filippov as authority Nikolai Pitersky
- Oleg Vidov as senior lieutenant Vladimir Nikolaevich Slavin
- Nikolay Olyalin as police colonel
- Anatoliy Papanov as chess player
- Lyubov Sokolova as head of the kindergarten
- Pavel Shpringfeld as cloakroom attendant