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Borrowing Matchsticks

1980 · 1 h 40 min
Directed by Leonid Gaidai
AdventureComedyHistory

Cast

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Plot

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi town, a Soviet adventure-comedy follows a Finnish-Soviet pair in a farce about borrowing matchsticks.

Sinekatalog’s take

Leonid Gaidai's Za spichkami, a Soviet-Finnish co-production, is lively and absurd, set in 1900s Finland, with Finnish and Russian leads.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.7 / 10 (1,435 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.