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Daniil Mendelevich
Gennady Morozov
Vsevolod Larionov
Alexander Baranov
Natalia Bogomolova
Elvira Maslova
Yuri Kuzyurin
Vladimir Zarubin
Sergey Dezhkin
Joseph Kuroyan
Galina Barinova
Galina Zebrova
"Robbery by..."- Soviet satirical animated film for adults, created by director Efim Hamburg.
Parody of "gangster" films different countries. The cartoon consists of four short stories, each of which shows a bank robbery with the “characteristic features” of a particular country (USA, France, Italy and the USSR). Each novel parodies detective films of the corresponding countries of the 1960s and 70s, many cliches are used, and the drawn characters are similar to popular actors of that time. At the same time, the cartoon's screensaver is a humorously modified screensaver of the American film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - the MGM lion is “thrown out” by the unexpectedly appearing Cheburashka and takes his place.
Plot
- First part, "American Heist", satirizes Soviet stereotypes of the United States (advertising, skyscrapers, strip clubs) and parodies American gangster action films with lots of shootouts, explosions, intrigue and murder. The robbery involves several gangs who take turns driving up to the bank, but they are shot from the approaching car of a rival gang. Finally, the last gang manages to enter the bank using a ladder dropped from a helicopter, however, each of the accomplices (the robber, the driver escaping the chase, the shooter-bouncer, the femme fatale and the dancer in the strip club), after handing over the treasured suitcase to the accomplice turns out to be killed by him. The jewels stolen from the bank are calmly watched by the sheriff, a cold-blooded “super hero”, who in the end takes the stolen goods for himself, after which he explains to the affected bankers: “ It's a shame, but the criminals managed to escape…»
- "The French Job" cartoonishly reflects French cinema: the presence of love lines in any crime stories, the French passion for wine, and also refers to the “ideal robbery” plot common in Western cinema. A company of four accomplices (a released criminal, his daughter, a bar owner, her lover - a young swindler, and their pet mouse) develops a cunning plan based on many accidents impossible in real life. They draw a plan for the sewer system under the bank building, noting the presence of a bathroom next to the vault, a mouse carried by the daughter into the toilet causes a sewer blockage, the father, disguised as a plumber, comes to the vault, opens a suitcase, from where a lover jumps out with a gun, and a mouse jumps out of a water pipe. Together they attack the security guard, who hides in fear in the toilet, from where he is flushed down the drain. Having opened the lock of the vault with a mouse tail, the robbers steal valuables, drive away in a car, evade the chase, changing the color of the car on the go, and safely arrive at their bar. In the end, the money is stolen from them by a “drunk” bar visitor (Louis De Funes) who was following them, but he is caught by the police with the stolen money. The main objects of the parody can be considered the 1967 film “The Sun of the Vagabonds,” which is also known as “You haven’t said everything, Monsieur Farran,” and the 1963 film “Melody from the Cellar” with Jean Gabin in leading role. The ending itself is a kind of parody of the film “The Devil and the Ten Commandments” (1962).
- "Italian Job" satirizes corruption and the strength of personal connections in Italy, inflation, as well as the famous Italian laziness and sloppiness. The debt-ridden, unemployed drunkard Mario Brindisi, the father of a large family, a descendant of noble princes, learns that his wife Lucia has given birth to three twins in addition to her existing children. There is a scandal in the family; Lucia accuses her husband of mediocrity, laziness and unwillingness to earn money or at least rob a bank. The policeman who broke up the fight between the spouses tells Mario that the robbery was good idea, and he agrees. He borrows money from everyone, borrows an expensive suit and a car from a store, promising to pay it back when he robs a bank. Everyone knows that he is going to do this, but no one is stopping him. Having entered the bar before the robbery, Mario learns about the next pregnancy of his wife Lucia, feels dizzy and is ready to give up the robbery, but friends from the bar, under the approving cries of the townspeople about the need to feed the family, themselves bring him in their arms to the bank, where familiar employees gladly give him give him money. But as soon as Mario leaves the bank, a chase rushes after him, only it is not the police, but the creditors. Having paid off his debts, he is literally left without pants (since to take money out of the bank, instead of a bag, he used trousers tied in a knot, which were also taken from him for debts) and in addition learns that Lucia gave birth to quintuplets... The characters in the film commemorate “Saint Januarius” » ( "May Saint Januarius help you") - it is possible that this is a reference to the film “Operation Saint Januarius” (1966). The plot motifs of the films “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” (1963) with the invariably pregnant heroine of the first novella performed by Sophia Loren, as well as “Divorce Italian Style” (1961), in which all acquaintances encourage Marcello Mastroianni’s character to commit a crime - the murder of an unfaithful woman, are borrowed spouses.
- "Robbery by..."(absent in the censored version) - the concluding part, which does not have its own name (conditionally "Soviet-style robbery"), for Soviet viewers plays the role of the last phrase in a joke and parodies Soviet reality. Two obvious criminals go to the savings bank every day, wanting to get into it, but it is closed all the time (either for a sanitary day or for repairs). Finally, after a year, their patience runs out, and they independently complete the repairs that are standing still due to a lackadaisical attitude. After that, having pulled tights for two of them over their heads and taking out pistols, they burst inside into the newly renovated room. Here policeman Aniskin approaches the entrance and, to the music “Our service is both dangerous and difficult,” hangs up a sign “Police”, and shows the audience that “everything is under control.” The camera pulls back and the audience sees a popular advertising poster at the time - "Store your money in a savings bank."
Characters
All the main (and even some minor) characters are copied from real foreign and Soviet actors of the 1960s-1970s:
American robbery
- Sheriff - Marlon Brando
- Femme Fatale - Elizabeth Taylor
- The Archer Smothered with a Kiss - Telly Savalas
- Stripper - Kirk Douglas
The French Job
- The Old Robber - Jean Gabin, Fernandel (plumber Jean Folinier in the bank)
- Warden - Paul Prebois
- Young robber (husband of the bar owner) - Alain Delon
- Bar owner - Brigitte Bardot
- Sleeping Bar Patron - Louis de Funes
- Bank Security Guard - Noel Roquevert
Italian Job
- Mario Brindisi - Marcello Mastroianni
- Lucia, his wife - Sophia Loren
- Policeman - Alberto Sordi
- Innkeeper - unknown
- Mario's mother-in-law (Lucia's mother) - unknown
- 1st robber - Stanislav Chekan
- 2nd robber - Savely Kramarov
- Policeman - Mikhail Zharov (Aniskin)
New edition of the film
The last part of the cartoon (“... in the Soviet way”) was banned from showing by censorship for a number of years. In addition to ideological considerations, the reason was also that one of the heroes was based on Kramarov, who emigrated to the USA in 1981. The full version of the cartoon with the restored fourth fragment was released in 1988.
Creators
| director | Efim Hamburg |
| screenwriter | Mikhail Lipskerov |
| production designers | Igor Makarov, Daniil Mendelevich |
| operator | Mikhail Druyan |
| composer | Gennady Gladkov |
| sound engineer |
June 21st, 2016
Thefts and robberies are not something that human history and modern society could boast of. However, some people still continue to commit such atrocities. For different reasons. Some out of a desire to assert themselves, some as revenge, and some simply for the sake of personal enrichment. Be that as it may, some robberies have gone down in history as some of the most spectacular manifestations of criminal activity.
From art thefts at the Gardner Museum to a jewelry heist Harry Winston, here are 25 of the most ambitious robberies and thefts in history.
25. Diamond robbery at Brussels airport
On February 18, 2013, 8 masked armed men robbed a Swiss plane carrying diamonds worth $50 million that belonged to the Antwerp World Diamond Center.
The robbers in two cars with police markings drove up to the plane and attacked the Brink security company van from which the diamonds were loaded onto the plane. Not a single shot was fired during the robbery. All this took the criminals no more than 5 minutes.
Investigators note the timing was perfect (the passengers were already on the plane, all that remained was to load the gems) and say that the robbery was planned by professionals, suspecting that the attackers most likely had accomplices at the airport.
24. Sonali Bank robbery
On January 26, 2014, a Sonali Bank branch was robbed of Tk 169 million after two criminals broke into the vault from an abandoned room in a nearby building.
Unfortunately for the perpetrators, the Hollywood-style heist had an unhappy ending, although it was planned and executed almost perfectly: the leader and mastermind of the largest bank robbery in the history of Bangladesh was eventually arrested.
23. British Bank of the Middle East robbery
On January 20, 1976, a group of people associated with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) took advantage of the chaos in a country in civil war, penetrated The British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut in Beirut.
The robbers blew up the wall that was shared with the next standing church, then entered the bank's vault and emptied its contents (worth $20-50 million in gold bullion, Lebanese and foreign currency, securities and jewelry). Today, the loot is valued at more than 3 times what it was worth 40 years ago.
22. Bank of Pennsylvania Robbery of 1798
Known as the first bank robbery in US history, the 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania robbery occurred in the early morning hours of September 1st. The amount of $162,821 US dollars was stolen from the bank, which may not seem very impressive, but at that time it was a lot of money.
21. Chelembra Bank robbery
The Chelembra Bank robbery in the Indian state of Kerala is considered one of the largest in Indian history.
In the early morning of December 30, 2007, miscreants made a hole in the floor of the bank and escaped with 80 kilograms of gold and 5 million rupees, stealing a total of 80 million rupees from the bank. Two months later, the criminals were arrested.
20. The historic Bank of Australia robbery
The Bank of Australia robbery was the first in the history of this country. On September 14, 1828, a gang of five dug a tunnel through a sewer leading to a bank vault and stole £14,000 in bills and coins. Unfortunately for the robbers, the theft was discovered the next day and all 5 criminals were arrested.
19. A series of thefts by Stéphane Breitwieser
Between 1995 and 2001, Stefan Breitweiser stole 230 works of art from museums and exhibitions—about 38 per year.
Over the course of 6 years, he amassed an impressive art collection valued at $1.4 billion.
On January 7, 2005, the Strasbourg court sentenced him to 3 years in prison, but served only 26 months. He later wrote about his exploits in the book “Confessions of an Art Thief” (“Confessions d”un voleur d”art”), which was published on French in 2006 year.
18. Postal Truck Robbery in Plymouth, Massachusetts
On August 14, 1962, two men stopped a US Mail truck that was on its way to the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston to deliver a shipment. The truck contained more than $1.5 million in cash.
The criminals, armed with shotguns, and with the help of their accomplices, who directed traffic in a direction other than the robbery site, fled with all the cash.
17. Robbery National Museum anthropology in Mexico City
In 1985, on Christmas Eve, 140 priceless objects from the Mayans, Aztecs and other ancient civilizations were stolen from the world-famous National Museum of Anthropology, the largest theft of pre-Columbian art in history.
Eventually, in 1989, federal authorities recovered most of the gold coins, jades and stone objects, arresting one of the two men accused of staging the robbery.
16. Robbery of the Harry Winston jewelry house
Eight people have been jailed for the double robbery of the Harry Winston luxury jewelry and watch store in Paris, which cost the company more than $100 million worth of watches and jewelry.
Dubbed the Pink Panthers by Interpol (after the famous TV series), the international crime group, which specialized in robbing jewelry stores, was made up primarily of ethnic Serbs and Montenegrins.
“How do they manage to pull this off?” you ask. During the robbery in 2007, four men dressed in construction uniforms. A year later, in 2008, when four robbers attacked again, three of them wore women's clothing and wigs.
In March 2011, police found $19 million worth of jewelry stolen in 2008 in the drain of a house in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, but most of the stolen items were never recovered.
15. The legendary robbery committed by D.B. Cooper (D. B. Cooper)
D.B. Cooper - this man became known to the general public under this name after he hijacked a Boeing 727 flying from Portland (Oregon) to Seattle (Washington) on November 24, 1971.
A brave, extremely calm and polite person - this is how members of the crew of the extortionist who gave them 200,000 dollars described detailed instructions about the speed of flight, the angle of inclination of the wings, etc., and then jumped from the plane by parachute with bags full of money, which is perhaps the most impressive thing in this whole story.
About the further fate of D.B. Cooper is not known for certain.
14. Brink's-MAT warehouse robbery
The Brink's-MAT robbery (a joint venture between the security company Brink's and the London transport company MAT, which transported valuable cargo) occurred in the early morning of November 26, 1983: 6 criminals broke into the Brink's-MAT warehouse at London Heathrow Airport.
At one time, this robbery was described as the “crime of the century.” In 1992, the film "Fool's Gold" was made, based on real events that day.
13. Northern Bank Robbery
The Northern Bank robbery took place on 20 December 2004 at its head office in Donegall Square West in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
At the time, it was the largest robbery of its kind in British history and is estimated to have been carried out by up to 30 republicans, including several members of the senior leadership of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), who planned and carried out the heist. The robbers made off with £26.5 million ($41 million).
12. Robbery at the Central Bank (Banco Central) in Brazil
According to most experts, the illegal penetration of the Central Bank in Brazil was one of the most amazing manifestations of engineering.
Using the cunning cover of being a landscaping company, a group of intrepid robbers managed to dig a 76-metre tunnel under the bank. The thieves stole nearly $70 million, but police were only able to arrest 8 of the 25 people allegedly involved in the heist.
11. Securitas Vault Robbery
The robbery of the Securtias vault is believed to be the biggest cash theft in British history. It happened in February 2006.
The funny thing about this story is that although the criminals took with them what was described as a "huge" amount of cash (in the region of £53 million), they were forced to leave behind a much larger sum (£153 million). because they couldn't fit any more money into their truck.
10. The Great Brink's Robbery
The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed attack on the Brink's building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1950.
This perfectly executed robbery, with only a few clues left at the crime scene, was considered at one time the “crime of the century.”
The robbery was carried out by a criminal group of 11 people who eventually became enemies with each other, which helped the police track down and arrest each of them.
9. Agricultural Bank Robbery
This is probably the stupidest long-term theft Money from the bank you can imagine.
An employee of the Agricultural Bank of China stole money from his job to buy lottery tickets, for which he expected to win a large sum of money, from which, in fact, he was going to return the stolen goods.
He was unlucky in the lottery and again stole money from the vault to buy lottery tickets. And this went on for two months, until the bank management discovered the theft. By that time, the bank had been robbed by him of almost 33 million yuan ($4.3 million). The story ended with execution.
8. Knightsbridge Security Deposit Heist
The vault robbery took place in Cheval Place, Knightsbridge, London. The heist was led by Valerio Viccei, the son of a lawyer, who came to London in 1986 from Italy, where he was wanted for involvement in more than 50 armed robberies.
Once in London, he quickly resumed his criminal career to live the life of a playboy. On July 12, 1987, Valerio organized and led one of the most spectacular robberies in history, dubbed the “crime of the century.”
By infiltrating the vault under the guise of clients wanting to open a locker, the criminals broke into multiple lockers and emptied the vault, according to some estimates, to the tune of £60 million ($98 million).
After some time, the police got on his trail using a fingerprint left at the crime scene and arrested him. However, only a quarter of the stolen amount was recovered.
7. Central Bank of Iraq Robbery
Just hours before the American bombing of the Iraqi capital, one of Saddam Hussein's sons took nearly $1 billion in cash from the Central Bank, making it the largest bank robbery in history. Of course, all this was done on the direct orders of Saddam Hussein himself.
6. Lufthansa robbery
Almost 37 years ago, a group of men waited in a Ford Econoline 150 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City for X Hour.
At 3:12 a.m., they drove the van up to the ramp of the cargo terminal and then, wearing face masks and armed with guns, quickly and deftly stole $5 million in Lufthansa cash and nearly a million worth of jewelry from the airport vault—a haul that was worth today would be 22 million dollars.
The epic robbery, organized by gangster Henry Hill, remains to this day one of the largest cash thefts committed in the United States. The crime has been popularized in books and feature films, most famously in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.
5. British bonds
On May 2, 1990, a courier named John Goddard was walking down a street in the City of London when a man appeared out of nowhere, pulled out a knife and, threatening to kill him, stole his briefcase.
It could be the most "lucrative" robbery in history, as the briefcase contained bonds worth £292 million. However, the attacker was unlucky: he was later found shot to death.
4. Gardner Museum Robbery
The Gardner Museum heist is one of the largest art thefts in history. It took place on March 18, 1990, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, while the city celebrated St. Patrick's Day.
The thieves are estimated to have stolen more than $500 million worth of art, and the unsolved crime remains the subject of much speculation.
3. The Great Train Robbery
This is the name given to the theft of a significant amount of money from a Royal Mail mail train traveling from Glasgow to London.
The robbery took place in the early hours of August 8, 1963, on the Bridego railway bridge in England and was carried out by a man known as "the Ulsterman".
The criminals managed to escape with more than 2.6 million pounds sterling, which would be 59 million pounds sterling ($77.5 million) at today's exchange rates. Most of the stolen money was never found.
2. Antwerp Diamond Heist
In February 2003, an ambitious Italian named Leonardo Notarbartolo was arrested for organizing a criminal group of Italian thieves.
They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors below the Antwerp International Diamond Center and stealing at least $100 million in diamonds, gold and jewelry.
Until this time, the vault was considered impregnable, and the robbery of Antwerp diamonds went down in history as the “robbery of the century.”
1. Dunbar Armored Heist
The robbery of a company that provides services for transporting valuable cargo in armored vehicles is considered the largest cash theft in US history.
The robbery took place in 1997 at the company's facility in Los Angeles, California, from where thieves managed to steal $18.9 million.
This crime was developed and organized by Allen Pace, who previously worked for this company as a regional security inspector.
However, it all ended in failure for him because he was arrested and sentenced to 24 years in prison. The police managed to find less than half of the money, and $10 million has still not been found.