Stories from the set

The assistant professor takes the best spot in the prison cell (by the window). It then turns out that the best spot belongs to Vasily Alibabayevich, who does not look like a prison authority.

When the fugitives are being poured into a barrel, there is only one vehicle, but when the vehicle is shown on the road, the tanker is already a different one.

The boot print is already present on the "Docent's" trousers before Nikola Pitersky kicks him.

The cloakroom attendant arranges to meet Troshkin at the Bolshoi Theatre at 5 p.m. But the failed meeting takes place on New Year's Eve, and at that time, at 5 p.m. at the latitude of Moscow, it is already dark.

The characters get into a taxi. The car has windshield wipers. When the characters get out of the car, the wipers are gone.

Vidov gives Leonov the address where they will live: «Konny Lane, house No. 8». This is in the area of the «Shabolovskaya» metro station — the «Oktyabrskaya» metro station. But when the view from the window of «this house» is shown, you can see the Chistye Prudy area and the «Sovremennik» theatre (completely different districts of Moscow).

In the scene where Leonov comes to the kindergarten to borrow money, a tattoo is visible on his hand: a burning electric light bulb. A little later, when he is lugging batteries, the same light bulb is turned 180 degrees.

In the scene of the exercise session in the frost, all the «escapees» have crisp tattoos. But as soon as they start rubbing themselves with snow, the tattoos smear and effectively turn into blots.

It ranks 12th in attendance among domestic films in the history of Soviet film distribution.

In the city of Dzhambul, which Vasily Alibabayevich mentions, a monument to «Gentlemen of Fortune» has been erected. Only now this city has been renamed Taraz (Kazakhstan).