# Leonid Gaidai's best films

Shurik, the Coward, the Fool and the Pro: Gaidai's comedies according to Kino Mail, Okko and Wink, led by The Diamond Arm and Ivan Vasilievich.

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- Aug 2, 2025 · boxoffice_piter
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## Top 14

1. **The Diamond Arm (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov and smuggling in a plaster cast.
2. **Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A time machine brings Ivan the Terrible to Moscow, from Bulgakov.
3. **Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shurik rescues a student kidnapped in the Caucasus.
4. **Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three stories about the student Shurik.
5. **The Twelve Chairs (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ostap Bender hunts for diamonds hidden in chairs.
6. **Sportloto-82 (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A seaside comedy about a winning lottery ticket.
7. **Dog Barbos and the Unusual Cross (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The short that introduced the Coward, the Fool and the Pro.
8. **It Can't Be! (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three stories from Zoshchenko.
9. **Moonshiners (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A short silent comedy about the trio making moonshine.
10. **Incognito from St. Petersburg (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Gogol's The Government Inspector.
11. **Business People (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three O. Henry stories.
12. **For the Matches (1980)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Soviet-Finnish comedy from Maiju Lassila.
13. **Dangerous for Your Life! (1985)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Kuravlyov in a satire of bureaucracy.
14. **Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His last film, a spy comedy.

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