The best Yuri Nikulin movies
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: The Diamond Arm (1969) · Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) · The Twelve Chairs (1971). (Updated Dec 18, 2025.)
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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Top 12
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1
The Diamond Arm (1969)
Leonid Gaidai: modest economist Semyon Semyonovich and a plaster cast full of diamonds.
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2
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Leonid Gaidai: Balbes, Coward and Experienced kidnap the 'athlete and Komsomol member'.
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3
The Twelve Chairs (1971)
Leonid Gaidai: Father Fyodor chasing the diamonds.
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4
Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965)
Leonid Gaidai: the trio of crooks and a warehouse robbery.
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5
Twenty Days Without War (1976)
Aleksei German: war correspondent Lopatin on leave behind the lines.
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6
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Sergei Bondarchuk from Sholokhov: soldiers retreating towards Stalingrad.
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7
Moonshiners (1961)
Leonid Gaidai: the first short with Balbes, Coward and Experienced.
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8
Dog Barbos and the Unusual Cross (1961)
Leonid Gaidai: poachers, dynamite and a dog.
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9
Come Here, Mukhtar! (1964)
A police dog handler and his faithful Mukhtar.
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10
Scarecrow (1983)
Rolan Bykov: the grandfather of a girl bullied by her classmates.
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11
When the Trees Were Tall (1961)
Lev Kulidzhanov: an idler poses as a young woman's father.
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12
Old Robbers (1971)
Eldar Ryazanov: pensioners decide to commit a crime.
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13
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Andrei Tarkovsky: the monk Patrikei.
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14
Business People (1963)
Leonid Gaidai from O. Henry: 'The Ransom of Red Chief' and other stories.
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