Synopsis
"Gentlemen of Fortune" (1971) is a Soviet comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Aleksandr Sery from a script co-written by Georgiy Daneliya and Viktoriya Tokareva.
Troshkin runs a kindergarten and has the misfortune of being the exact double of a thief called "the Docent," currently behind bars after stealing a historic Macedonian helmet. The police have a plan: send Troshkin in undercover, posing as the Docent fresh off arrest. His cellmates — three small-time crooks played by Georgiy Vitsin, Savely Kramarov, and Radner Muratov — buy it completely. As Troshkin gets better at the act, he starts to worry about himself.
Daneliya's script functions like clockwork. Every running gag pays off, every character gets a complete arc, and Yevgeny Leonov makes the whole improbable premise feel earned. A comedy that has held up for fifty-plus years — not nostalgia, just craft. Stream Gentlemen of Fortune online on iFILM.
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