Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian 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".[1]
^Prokhorova, Elena, "The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy", in Beumers, Birgit (2008) A History of Russian Cinema, Berg Publishers, ISBN 978-1845202156, pp. 519–542
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter...
by LeonidGaidai based on the famous novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future, a 1973 comedy by LeonidGaidai. A...
artistic styles in Soviet cinema. The comedies of Eldar Ryazanov and LeonidGaidai of that time were immensely popular, with many of the catchphrases still...
Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer LeonidGaidai, (1923–1993), Soviet comedy film director Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic...
romanized: Dolgiy put) is a 1956 Soviet historical romance film directed by LeonidGaidai and Valentin Nevzorov. Filmed on the motives of Vladimir Korolenko's...
Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by director LeonidGaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei...
for the first name Alexander Shurik (Gaidai) [ru], the protagonist in several Russian films directed by LeonidGaidai All pages with titles containing Shurik...
RSFSR (1991). He is best known for playing the character Shurik in LeonidGaidai's movies. Aleksandr Demyanenko was born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union in...
in the 1962 Soviet black-and-white comedy film Strictly Business by LeonidGaidai, the 1977 "The Ransom of Red Chief" episode of the ABC Weekend Special...
performed in more than thirty films. She was married to film director LeonidGaidai. In 1954 graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (workshop...
The Nile and the Life (feature film) 1968 The Diamond Arm directed by LeonidGaidai (comedy) 1969 Liberation directed by Yuri Ozerov (historical drama)...
having played about thirty roles. In 1989, Madyanov appeared in the LeonidGaidai film Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation. He also took part...
neobychnij kross) is a 1961 Soviet short crime comedy film directed by LeonidGaidai. A trio of petty criminals, known as The Coward, The Fool and The Pro...
Eldar Ryazanov, Naum Trakhtenberg, Eduard Zmoiro, Vladimir Semakov and LeonidGaidai. The film is a comedy almanac, which includes five short stories. Sergey...
known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by LeonidGaidai. People's Artist of Russia (2003). Aleksandr was born on 10 March 1926...
manner, a movie named The Diamond Arm was saved after the director, LeonidGaidai, intentionally included a nuclear explosion at the end of the film....
(Coward), a member of an antihero comic trio in a series of films by LeonidGaidai Fyodor Volkov, 18th century actor and founder of the first permanent...
Fyodor Bondarchuk – film director Alexander Dovzhenko – film director LeonidGaidai – film director Anna Politkovskaya – journalist, writer, and human rights...
filming Varley was spotted by the assistant of another film director, LeonidGaidai, who invited her to the auditions for his new project, Kidnapping, Caucasian...
"jumble" or "mishmash." It was directed by various artists, including LeonidGaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov to the...
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