Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) on Netflix
Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin runs a kindergarten and looks exactly like Docent, the thief who took Alexander the Great's golden helmet. The police ask him to pose as the criminal.
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A gang of three steals Alexander the Great's golden helmet from an archaeological dig, and the police identify them: Aleksandr Belyi, known as Docent, and his two henchmen. In Moscow, Professor Maltsev, who led the expedition, spots a man with a striking resemblance to Docent and follows him. The man is Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin, the amiable principal of Kindergarten No. 83. The misunderstanding is cleared up, but the arrested thieves no longer have the helmet, so officers ask Troshkin to put the likeness to work. Disguised with a toupee and fake tattoos, he is sent to a prison in Central Asia where two of Docent's accomplices are serving time, to pass himself off as their boss.
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- Vladimir Protasenkoas Mishka - drug detstva Kosogo
- Vladimir Van-Zo-Lias Nachalnik kolonii
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
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- Director Aleksandr Sery had just come out of prison when he made Gentlemen of Fortune; he used his prison experience to design many of the film's situations and introduced numerous expressions from Russian criminal slang, known as fenya.
- Catchphrases from Gentlemen of Fortune entered Russian culture, and much of the criminal slang heard in it was invented for the film before spreading widely, including "radish" — a word used jokingly even by Vladimir Putin.
- A monument to Yevgeny Leonov in his role from Gentlemen of Fortune was installed on Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow in 2001, stolen for scrap metal and destroyed in 2015, and a copy put up in 2016.
