Leonid Gaidai

Leonid Gaidai

Nacimiento : 1923-01-30, Svobodny, Amurskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR

Muerte : 1993-11-19

Historia

Leonid I. Gaidai (30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR and modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.

Perfil

Leonid Gaidai

Películas

There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Writer
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
Director
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Writer
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 - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
Director
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 - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.
Dangerous for Your Life!
Writer
A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.
Dangerous for Your Life!
Director
A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.
SportLotto - 82
Writer
Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
SportLotto - 82
Director
Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
For the Matches
Screenplay
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
For the Matches
Director
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Director
An omnibus of comical shorts.
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Writer
A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
Incognito from St.Petersburg
Director
A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
It Can't Be!
Writer
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
It Can't Be!
Director
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
Ivan Vasilievich cambia de profesión
Writer
Por accidente, el casero de un edificio y un ladrón viajan al Moscú del siglo XVI, mientras que Iván el Terrible viaja al año 1973. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ivan Vasilievich cambia de profesión
Director
Por accidente, el casero de un edificio y un ladrón viajan al Moscú del siglo XVI, mientras que Iván el Terrible viaja al año 1973. (FILMAFFINITY)
12 Chairs
Writer
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 in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
12 Chairs
Коробейников
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 in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
12 Chairs
Director
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 in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
El brazo de brillantes
Writer
Semyon Gorbunkov está disfrutando de un crucero. En Estambul, se tropieza y se rompe el brazo. Lo que no sabe es que es una señal para una mafia contrabandista, que le vendará el brazo con diamantes y oro. A su vuelta a casa, los contrabandistas tratan de recuperar su botín mientras la policía los persigue utilizando de cebo el brazo de Gorbunkov...
El brazo de brillantes
Director
Semyon Gorbunkov está disfrutando de un crucero. En Estambul, se tropieza y se rompe el brazo. Lo que no sabe es que es una señal para una mafia contrabandista, que le vendará el brazo con diamantes y oro. A su vuelta a casa, los contrabandistas tratan de recuperar su botín mientras la policía los persigue utilizando de cebo el brazo de Gorbunkov...
Un rapto a la caucasiana
Writer
En su búsqueda de costumbres y folklore de la región del Cáucaso, el inocente Shurik conoce a una hermosa chica, que es secuestrada para casarse a la fuerza con un cacique local. Shurik cree que es todo una vieja tradición de la zona...
Un rapto a la caucasiana
Director
En su búsqueda de costumbres y folklore de la región del Cáucaso, el inocente Shurik conoce a una hermosa chica, que es secuestrada para casarse a la fuerza con un cacique local. Shurik cree que es todo una vieja tradición de la zona...
Operación Y y otras aventuras de Shurik
convict (uncredited)
El argumento sigue las aventuras del aplicado y genuino estudiante soviético Shúrik, que a menudo se mete en difíciles situaciones de las que suele salir más o menos limpiamente. La película se halla dividida en tres partes y se rodó en Moscú, Leningrado, Bakú y Odessa. -Naparnik (“Compañero de trabajo”) El compañero de trabajo.En un autobús, un patán y borracho llamado Fedia se sienta en un asiento reservado para niños e incapacitados y rechaza dejar sentarse a una joven embarazada argumentando “que no es ni una niña ni una incapacitada”. Shúrik, que viaja en el mismo autobús, se pone unas gafas de sol y finge ser ciego... -Navazhdeniye (“Déjà vu”) Es época de los exámenes de verano en la Universidad, y todo el mundo está asustado por los exámenes. Shúrik (y los demás) busca desesperadamente apuntes y finalmente los ve en manos de una chica, Lida, que estudia en la misma Universidad.
Obsession
Writer
Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes
Obsession
Director
Student Shurik has just two hours before the beginning of the exam and he has no lectures notes
Operación Y y otras aventuras de Shurik
Writer
El argumento sigue las aventuras del aplicado y genuino estudiante soviético Shúrik, que a menudo se mete en difíciles situaciones de las que suele salir más o menos limpiamente. La película se halla dividida en tres partes y se rodó en Moscú, Leningrado, Bakú y Odessa. -Naparnik (“Compañero de trabajo”) El compañero de trabajo.En un autobús, un patán y borracho llamado Fedia se sienta en un asiento reservado para niños e incapacitados y rechaza dejar sentarse a una joven embarazada argumentando “que no es ni una niña ni una incapacitada”. Shúrik, que viaja en el mismo autobús, se pone unas gafas de sol y finge ser ciego... -Navazhdeniye (“Déjà vu”) Es época de los exámenes de verano en la Universidad, y todo el mundo está asustado por los exámenes. Shúrik (y los demás) busca desesperadamente apuntes y finalmente los ve en manos de una chica, Lida, que estudia en la misma Universidad.
Operación Y y otras aventuras de Shurik
Director
El argumento sigue las aventuras del aplicado y genuino estudiante soviético Shúrik, que a menudo se mete en difíciles situaciones de las que suele salir más o menos limpiamente. La película se halla dividida en tres partes y se rodó en Moscú, Leningrado, Bakú y Odessa. -Naparnik (“Compañero de trabajo”) El compañero de trabajo.En un autobús, un patán y borracho llamado Fedia se sienta en un asiento reservado para niños e incapacitados y rechaza dejar sentarse a una joven embarazada argumentando “que no es ni una niña ni una incapacitada”. Shúrik, que viaja en el mismo autobús, se pone unas gafas de sol y finge ser ciego... -Navazhdeniye (“Déjà vu”) Es época de los exámenes de verano en la Universidad, y todo el mundo está asustado por los exámenes. Shúrik (y los demás) busca desesperadamente apuntes y finalmente los ve en manos de una chica, Lida, que estudia en la misma Universidad.
Businessmen
Writer
Three stories based on O. Henry novels.
Businessmen
Director
Three stories based on O. Henry novels.
Kindred Spirits
Director
Bootleggers
Screenplay
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 friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...
Bootleggers
Director
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 friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Screenplay
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? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Director
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? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
В пути
Thrice Resurrected
Izobretatel (uncredited)
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 transporting wounded soldiers and children
Thrice Resurrected
Director
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 transporting wounded soldiers and children
The Wind
Закревский
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 delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to participate in League’s congress.
A Groom from the Right Society
Director
Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried.
A Weary Road
Director
Lyana
Alyosha
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.