Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat ( et, Briljandid proletariaadi diktatuurile) is a 1975 Soviet Estonian action film directed by
Grigori Kromanov and based on the novel of the same name by
Yulian Semyonov.
Plot
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil.
** The Spanish lin ...
. Chekist
Gleb Bokii
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii ( ukr, Гліб Іванович Бокій; russian: Глеб Иванович Бокий; 21 June 1879 – 15 November 1937) was a Ukrainian Communist political activist, revolutionary, and paranormal investigatorZnamenski ...
received an encrypted message from Tallinn that there is an organization in Russia that is engaged in the theft of jewels from
Gokhran
The Gokhran (russian: Гохран) or Gokhran of Russia () is a state institution under the Russian Ministry of Finance, responsible for the State Fund of Precious Metals and Precious Stones of the Russian Federation. It is responsible for the pu ...
and illegally smuggling them through the Baltic states to London and Paris. The investigation of the case is entrusted to a young employee of the
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə), abbreviated ...
Vsevolod Vladimirov.
Cast
*
Vladimir Ivashov as
Isayev
*
Alexander Kaidanovsky as Vorontsov
*
Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Anna Viktorovna
*
Tatyana Samoylova as Maria Olenetskaya
*
Margarita Terekhova
Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title ...
as Vera, Vorontsov's ex-wife
*
Edita Piekha as Lida Bosse (voiced by
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Svetlana Afanasyevna Svetlichnaya (russian: link=no, Светлана Афанасьевна Светличная; born 15 May 1940) is a Soviet and Russian actress most famous for her role in ''The Diamond Arm'' (1968).
Biography
She was born i ...
)
*
Alexander Porokhovshchikov
Aleksandr Shalvovich Porokhovshchikov (russian: Александр Шалвович Пороховщиков, 31 January 1939, Moscow – 15 April 2012, Moscow) was a Russian film and theatre actor and film director, People's Artist of Russi ...
as Osip Shelehes
*
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Roman (Fyodor Shelehes)
*
Lev Durov as Nikolay Pozhamchi
*
Vladimir Osenev
Vladimir Ivanovich Osenev (russian: Владимир Иванович Осенев; 8 September 1908 – 1 April 1977) was a Soviet stage, film and voice actor. After graduating from Vakhtangov Theatre in the 1930s he had a stage career spanning ...
as Stopansky
*
Mikk Mikiver as Arthur Neumann, chief of political intelligence in Estonia
*
Algimantas Masiulis as Otto Nolmar
*
Heino Mandri as Karl Yurla
*
Leonhard Merzin
Leonhard Merzin (10 February 1934 in Aruküla, Kudina Parish (now Maardla, Mustvee Parish) – 2 January 1990 in Tartu) was an Estonian theatre and film actor, one of the Estonian actors active in the Soviet Union and abroad. He played in mo ...
as Auguste
*
Ants Eskola as Heino Marchand
*
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in pa ...
as pianist in a restaurant
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0072740
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat entry in Estonian Film Database (EFIS)
1975 films
Soviet-era Estonian films
Stierlitz
Films based on Russian novels
Soviet spy films
Films set in 1921
Tallinnfilm films
Films directed by Grigori Kromanov