Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov
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Andrey Mironov as Andrey Vasilyev |
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Ninetto Davoli as Giuseppe |
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Antonia Santilli as Olga |
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Alighiero Noschese as Antonio Lo Mazzo |
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Tano Cimarosa as Rosario Agrò |
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Evgeniy Evstigneev as Italian Lame |
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Gigi Ballista as doctor |
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Olga Aroseva as Andrey's mother |
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Franca Sciutto as Rosario's wife |
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Bruno Boschetti as |
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Larisa Vikkel as stewardess |
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Boris Runge as auto station key keeper |
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Ella Nekrasova as |
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Antonina Maksimova as |
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Vadim Grachov as customs officer |
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Zoya Isaeva as doctor |
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Yuri Mikhajlov as |
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Aleksandr Lukyanov as |
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Valerian Vinogradov as airport dispatcher |
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Yury Shepelev as Theatre Administrator |
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A. Portyanoy as |
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Sergey Yurtaykin as car driver |
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Oleg Belov as |
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Anatoliy Stepanov as |
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Rossana Di Lorenzo as Marisa Lomazzo |
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Valentina Talyzina as hotel floor attendant |
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Eldar Ryazanov as doctor on the airplane wing |
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Valeriy Bondarenko as (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Karpenko as (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Kononov as Giuseppe (russian voice) (uncredited) |
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Natalya Gurzo as Olga (russian voice) (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Antonio Lo Mazzo (russian voice) (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Gluzskiy as Rosario Agrò (russian voice) (uncredited) |
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Yakov Belenkiy as doctor (russian voice) (uncredited) |
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Rimma Markova as Marisa Lomazzo (russian voice) (uncredited) |
| Writing | Emil Braginskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Pipolo | Writer |
| Writing | Castellano | Writer |
| Writing | Eldar Ryazanov | Writer |
| Directing | Eldar Ryazanov | Director |
| Editing | Inessa Brozhovskaya | Editor |
| Art | Mikhail Bogdanov | Production Design |
| Camera | Gábor Pogány | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Mochalina | Costume Design |
| Production | Luigi De Laurentiis | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Mikhail Bits | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Franco Prosperi | Co-Director |
| Production | Dino De Laurentiis | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Enrico Fiorentini | Costume Design |
| Sound | Carlo Rustichelli | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Yuri Mikhailov | Sound Director |
| Sound | Emin Khachaturyan | Conductor |
| Sound | Ivan Shpiller | Conductor |
| Directing | Vladimir Dostal | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Idelmo Simonelli | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Vyacheslav Syomin | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Struntsova | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mariya Chiglyakova | Makeup & Hair |
| Visual Effects | Igor Felitsyn | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | A. Zakharov | VFX Supervisor |
| Writing | Anatoliy Stepanov | Script Editor |
| Sound | Raisa Lukina | Music Editor |
| Directing | V. Sirovsky | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yelena Sudakova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | A. Nazarov | Assistant Director |
| Directing | S. Yablokov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Ivanov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Cristiano Pogany | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V. Novikov | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Mikhail Kudelin | Lighting Artist |
| Art | Georgi Koshelev | Set Designer |
| Art | A. Chuenkov | Construction Coordinator |
| Crew | Sergio Mioni | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Giulio Molinari | Special Effects |
| Crew | Vil Golovko | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | V. Shpak | Stunt Coordinator |