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The Golden Calf 1968

type: Movie

language: Russian

duration: 164 min

genre: comedy

theme: crime comedy

director: Mikhail Schweitzer

Score: 5 / 10

The Golden Calf is a 1968 Soviet comedy film directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on the eponymous novel by Ilf and Petrov.

Plot

It is the 1920s in the Soviet Union, and master swindler Ostap Bender dreams of moving to Rio de Janeiro, for which he would need at least 500,000 rubles. However, for now, he is penniless and stranded in Arbatov, a small town.

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author	Mikhail Schweitzer
contentLocation	Odesa
director	Mikhail Schweitzer
genre	comedy crime
keywords	age difference angry mob arrest black market black sea border guard children of lieutenant schmidt claim coastal city court disillusion drive follow food shortage government official heart attack help id kharkov load married meet moscow move old man ostap bender petty criminal pop pyotr schmidt raw materials rio de janeiro set up sleep small town son of lieutenant schmidt soviet union spare part steal strand taxi driver their way think traffic turkestan turkestan-siberia railway unassuming understand young man
musicBy	Georgiy Firtich
productionCompany	Mosfilm
theme	crime comedy