The Golden Calf

Jul 8, 1968

2h 54m

★ 7.9

Overview

A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Ostap Bender

Sergei Yursky

Shura Balaganov

Leonid Kuravlyov

Panikovsky

Zinoviy Gerdt

Koreiko

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Kozlevich

Nikolai Boyarsky

Zosya Sinitskaya

Svetlana Starikova

Berlaga

Pavel Vinnik

Sekretar

Mikhail Kokshenov

Skumbriyevich

Konstantin Voynov

Car Enthusiast

Igor Yasulovich

Zagirov

Radner Muratov

Polykhaev

Yevgeni Perov

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