Borrowing Matchsticks

Borrowing Matchsticks
Directed byLeonid Gaidai
Risto Orko
Written byOriginal play:
Algot Untola
Screenplay:
Leonid Gaidai
Tapio Vilpponen
Vladlen Bakhnov
Risto Orko
StarringYevgeny Leonov
Vyacheslav Nevinny
Georgy Vitsin
Rita Polster
Ritva Valkama
Sergey Filippov
Music byAleksandr Zatsepin
Production
companies
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
94 min (Soviet version)
100 min (Finnish version)
CountriesSoviet Union
Finland
LanguageRussian / Finnish

Borrowing Matchsticks (Russian: За спичками, romanized: Za spichkami, Finnish: Tulitikkuja lainaamassa) is a Soviet–Finnish historical adventure comedy film produced by Mosfilm and Suomi-Filmi in 1980.

The film is based on the novel with the same title, Tulitikkuja lainaamassa, by Algot Untola. The novel was also put to film in 1938, Borrowing Matchsticks (1938 film).

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