# The best Yuri Nikulin movies

Balbes of Gaidai's trio, Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov and Lopatin in Twenty Days Without War: Yuri Nikulin's best roles according to Film.ru and Kultura.RF.

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- Dec 18, 2025 · inkandpaper_wandering
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## Top 12

1. **The Diamond Arm (1969)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai: modest economist Semyon Semyonovich and a plaster cast full of diamonds.
2. **Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai: Balbes, Coward and Experienced kidnap the 'athlete and Komsomol member'.
3. **The Twelve Chairs (1971)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai: Father Fyodor chasing the diamonds.
4. **Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai: the trio of crooks and a warehouse robbery.
5. **Twenty Days Without War (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aleksei German: war correspondent Lopatin on leave behind the lines.
6. **They Fought for Their Country (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sergei Bondarchuk from Sholokhov: soldiers retreating towards Stalingrad.
7. **Moonshiners (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai: the first short with Balbes, Coward and Experienced.
8. **Dog Barbos and the Unusual Cross (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai: poachers, dynamite and a dog.
9. **Come Here, Mukhtar! (1964)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A police dog handler and his faithful Mukhtar.
10. **Scarecrow (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rolan Bykov: the grandfather of a girl bullied by her classmates.
11. **When the Trees Were Tall (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lev Kulidzhanov: an idler poses as a young woman's father.
12. **Old Robbers (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eldar Ryazanov: pensioners decide to commit a crime.
13. **Andrei Rublev (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Andrei Tarkovsky: the monk Patrikei.
14. **Business People (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Leonid Gaidai from O. Henry: 'The Ransom of Red Chief' and other stories.

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