Gentlemen of Fortune

"My job is to raise children, not to run around the Soviet Union with your crooks."

"Politeness is a thief's best weapon."

"Stand up! That's it! If we don't want to go back to jail, if we want to get to the helmet, from today onwards, all squabbles are to stop. No gambling! No drinking! No stealing... without me."

"Who is he? Miserable engineer and nothing else! And what kind of life does he have? To the work in the morning, from the work in the evening... Wife at home, kids... snotty noses... Would go visit some theater, or, in the summer, a sanatorium... in Yalta. Snorefest! And you? You're a thief! A gentleman of fortune! Stole, drank, go to jail! Stole, drank, go to jail! The allure! So don't worry… Of course he’s jealous."

"Oh, what's wrong with you people...? Shame on you! You're forty years old each, past over a half of your lives! What's behind you? What's now? What's ahead? Darkness, filth, fear and nothing human. Snap out of it... Snap out of it before it's too late — that's my advice to you!"

"I feel like there's an ambush there… I always feel it…"

"It’s us who mess with them, take them on bail, re-educate them! But we should do it like in Turkey, in the old days! They'd put the thief in a vat of crap, so just his head sticks out, and drive him around the city. And above him is a Janissary with a sword, and every five minutes he's liiiike... swoosh – with his sword over the vat! So if the thief doesn’t dive, his head rolls! That's how he dived into crap all day! (Troshkin: Well, that's Turkey. It's warm over there.)"

"I’ll buy a car with a tape player, sew a suit with a shinier grain, and off to Yalta!"

"(comments on his own arrest) That's it. No more movies, electricity is over."

"Everyone ran, so I ran, too."

"Dinner is served! Sit down and guzzle, please!"

"Col. Verchenko. Tell me, how much does that helmet weigh?"

"(Lt. Slavin teaches Troshkin the criminal slang)"

"(fugitive crooks run along the road, posing as athletes.)"

"(Troshkin punishes swindlers for bad manners)"

"Alibaba. Docent, was you ever little boy?"

"Alibaba. Lousy jackal, I am. Took money from the children. Robbed a kindergarten."

"Yevgeny Leonov as Yevgeny Ivanovich Troshkin, kindergarten principal / Aleksandr Aleksandrovich "Docent" Beliy, criminal"

"Georgy Vitsin as Gavrila Petrovich "Sad Sack" Sheremetyev, criminal"

"Savely Kramarov as Fyodor Petrovich "Crosseyes" Yermakov, criminal"

"Radner Muratov as Vasily Alibabayevich Alibaba, criminal"

"Erast Garin as Professor Nikolai Maltsev, archeologist"

"Natalya Fateyeva as Lyudmila Maltseva, professor's daughter"

"Oleg Vidov as Lieutenant Slavin"

"Nikolay Olyalin as Colonel Verchenko"

"Anatoli Papanov as chess player in hotel"

"Lyubov Sokolova as kindergarten vice principal"