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, romanizedZa spichkami, Finnish: Tulitikkuja lainaamassa) is a SovietFinnish historical adventure comedy film produced by Mosfilm and Suomi-Filmi in 1980. The film is based on a novel by Algot Untola.