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.
Stunts
Leningrad car chase is practical-effects insanity.
Production
Red Square filming a miracle of Soviet-Italian cooperation.
Acting
Mironov's deadpan against Davoli's frantic energy.
Director
Eldar Ryazanov
Andrey Mironov
Andrey Vasilyev
Ninetto Davoli
Giuseppe
Antonia Santilli
Olga
Alighiero Noschese
Antonio Lo Mazzo
Tano Cimarosa
Rosario Agrò
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Italian Lame
Gigi Ballista
doctor
Olga Aroseva
Andrey's mother
Larisa Vikkel
stewardess
Boris Runge
auto station key keeper
Ella Nekrasova
Antonina Maksimova
Vadim Grachov
customs officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few Soviet-Italian co-productions; Ryazanov had to negotiate filming in forbidden Leningrad zones.
The famous car chase destroyed 18 cars—Soviet authorities only approved it because they were 'decadent Western vehicles.'
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