Leonid Ivovich Gaidai is an outstanding Soviet film director, screenwriter and national artist. His best paintings became the legends of domestic cinema and the audience loved it very much. The films belonging to him are highly appreciated by prestigious movie sites, and their relevance does not fall to this day. In total, Leonid Ivovich shot 20 art paintings.
Readers are presented Gaidai movies. Movie list composed of the best works of the Soviet director.
10. For matches
Film “For the matches” opens a list of the best works of the Soviet director. The art picture is based on the novel by Maya Lassil. The Finnish married couple - Antti Ihalainen and Anna-Lisa live on the farm. One day, the wife discovers that the match is over in the house. She sends a spouse after them to a neighbor. But along the way, Antti meets his longtime friend, with whom he decides to drink for a meeting, with which begins the adventure journey of the protagonist.
9. Sportloto-82
Sportloto-82 included in the list of best films by Leonid Gaidai. There is a motley four in the compartment of the train: the girl Tanya, the climber Misha, the simple guy Kostya, and the speculator San Sanych. Each of them is passionate about reading the bestselling book of the year, "Deadly Murder." The work is so exciting that Kostya does not notice how he eats Tatyana's whole chicken. As an apology, the young man purchases a lottery ticket for the girl at the nearest station and asks him to fill it out. The girl enters an ingenious combination of numbers and gives the ticket for storage to Kostya. He absentmindedly puts it not in his book. At the terminal station, the fellow travelers part, but soon fate will bring them together again, because the filled ticket is winning.
8. Dog Watchdog and Extraordinary Cross
“Dog Watchdog and Extraordinary Cross” - a comedic art painting by Gaidai, nominated for the golden palm branch of the Cannes Film Festival, as the best short film. Coward, Dunce and Experienced go fishing, taking with him the dog Barbosa. To speed up the catch process, friends throw a dynamite checker. The dog decides to remove the object from the river and rushes after him to swim. Realizing what this threatens, friends begin to run away from the "smart" dog. But he, in turn, does not give up and is trying by all means to catch up with the hosts in order to hand a saber, which is about to explode.
7. Moonshiners
"Moonshiners" - short comedy film by Leonid Gaidai. In a small forest hut, Dunce, Trus and Experienced are going to establish the production of moonshine. It’s a success and manages to make a lot of alcohol. The producers decide to try the drink themselves, and at the same time feed their dog Barbosa with sugar dipped in moonshine. Offended, the dog overturns the bottles of alcohol, grabs a coil from the moonshine and rushes to run with him into the forest. A tipsy trinity rushes after the dog. The adventures of moonshiners end with the police department, where they are arrested.
6. It can’t be!
"Can not be!" - Gaidai’s film, which includes three short stories that are interconnected. The art picture is an adaptation of the play Zoshchenko. In the center of the first short story is Gorbushkin, the store manager and his wife Anna Vasilievna. Once the protagonist is summoned to the prosecutor to the investigator. Gorbushkin is convinced that the police became aware of his financial fraud, the same opinion and his wife. He goes to the prosecutor's office, and in the meantime, the spouse and brother-in-law begin to sell all the property in order to avoid confiscation. In addition, Anna Vasilyevna decides to divorce her husband and hastily marries a neighbor. Soon, unsuspecting Gorbushkin, he was returning home in a good mood ...
5.2 chairs
"12 chairs" - Gaidai's feature film, based on the novel of the same name by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov learns from his dying mother-in-law that she once hid her jewelry in the amount of 150 thousand gold under the upholstery of one of the chairs of the living room set, made by the famous master Gams. Ippolit Matveyevich rushes in search of the coveted chairs, and the young adventurer Ostap Bender comes to his aid. At the same time, the hunt for chairs was opened by Father Fedor, to whom the mother-in-law Vorobyaninova also told a secret.
4. Caucasian captive or Shurik's New Adventures
"Caucasian Captive or Shurik's New Adventures" - Soviet film of 1966 by an outstanding Soviet director. In the center of events is one of the favorite characters of Gaidai Shurik, played by Alexander Demyanenko. The protagonist of the film goes to the Caucasus to collect folklore. There he meets a charming girl whom he falls in love with. Soon, her lover is abducted to force her to marry. Having learned about this, Shurik rushes to help the girl.
3. The diamond hand
"The Diamond Arm"- one of the best art paintings of Leonid Gaidai. In one of the southern towns, a “black case” is being carried out by a smuggling group led by the Chief and his assistant Graf. The story begins with the fact that the Soviet citizen Semyon Gorbunkov embarks on a cruise on a motor ship, on which the Count is also sailing. The smuggler must pick up the diamonds in one of the cities and transport them in a plaster hand. But instead of the Count, at the appointed hour, Simon appears at the appointed place, which slips and falls. The bandits take him for Earl and impose a gypsum on unsuspecting man, under which there are diamonds. From this moment, the usual measured life of Gorbunkov ends and dangerous adventures begin.
2. Operation Y and Shurik’s other adventures
Gaidai Movie “Operation Y and Shurik’s other adventures” enters the list of the best Soviet art paintings. The film includes three short stories: “Companion”, “Obsession” and “Operation“ Y ”. In each of the parts of the main character of the Shurik film, comedic and sometimes dangerous adventures await. In the first novel, the hero will have to fight the hooligan Verzila, in another - a very unusual way of preparing for exams and getting to know a girl, and in the third hero prevents the "theft of the century", which three robbers - Trus, Dunce and Experienced - must commit.
1. Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession
“Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession” - The best film of Leonid Gaidai. In the top 250 of the Kinopoisk site, the art picture took a worthy 11th place. Scientist Timofeev invents a design that allows you to travel in time. The machine miraculously connects the inventor’s apartment with the chambers of Ivan the Terrible, ruling in the 16th century. Thief Georges Miloslavsky, who penetrated the scientist’s apartment and the namesake of the tsar Ivan Vasilyevich Bunsha, gets into the past. At present, the king is in their place. Each of the characters is happy to return back to their period, but the breakdown of the time machine violates the natural course of events and entails incredible adventures.
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