Gentlemen of Fortune

Gentlemen of Fortune is a 1971 Soviet crime comedy film, filmed at Mosfilm and directed by Aleksandr Sery. The stars of the film include famous Soviet actors such as Yevgeny Leonov, Georgy Vitsin, Savely Kramarov and Radner Muratov. The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1972, drawing 65.02 million box office admissions. Plot During the autumn of 1970, in one of the Central Asian Soviet Republics three criminals steal Alexander the Great's golden helmet from the excavation site of an archaeological expedition. These criminals are quickly identified by police: they are Aleksandr Belyi (Yevgeny Leonov), aka Docent (literally associate professor), a ruthless big-shot criminal, and his two henchmen Fyodor Yermakov aka Crosseyes (Savely Kramarov) and Gavrila Sheremetyev aka Sad Sack (Georgy Vitsin). In Moscow, the head of the expedition, Professor Maltsev, encounters a man who looks exactly like Docent, and follows his lead. The man turns out to be Yevgeny Troshkin, an amiable principal of Kindergarten No. 83, and a WWII veteran (also played by Yevgeny Leonov).