About the film
The biggest diamond in the world goes missing from a Yakutian mine, and everyone, from gangsters to the state, is chasing it. It ends up with Vasily Krolikov, a small-time crook who happens to have two identical brothers he has never met.
Valery Garkalin plays all three brothers, and the chaos reaches Moscow, a Roma camp, a concert hall and the US Embassy. Menshov packs the film with satire of the wild post-Soviet years.
It is a big, loud farce and one of the most quoted Russian comedies of the 1990s.
Did you know?
- Valery Garkalin plays three brothers (and their mothers are played by different actresses).
- It was directed by Vladimir Menshov, who also made Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.
- Mosfilm restored it in 4K and re-released it in cinemas.
