The Policemen and the Thieves

Dec 12, 1998

★ 6.4

Overview

When a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be the director of a Russian-American pasta factory. The deceived American angrily orders his guard to find a thief. Unhappy fraudster awaits terrible punishment.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Etalon-Film

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Cast

Swindler

Gennadiy Khazanov

Slava - factory guard

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

Zhanna - guard's wife

Elena Tsyplakova

Dana - swindler's wife

Evgeniya Glushenko

Grandpa

Vladimir Zeldin

Amelkin

Sergey Batalov

American - host macaroni factories

Robert McIntyre

Taxi driver

Gennadiy Nazarov

Yardman

Tagir Rakhimov

Veronika - daughter of the guard

Anna Skvarnik

Alik - swindler's son

Sergey Krasnov

Garik - swindler's son

Aleksey Antonov

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