Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

82 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | April 1, 1967

In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the local deceitful governor. All the time Shurik thinks that it is all just a one old Caucasian custom. When he, finally, realizes what he did he goes out in search for the girl of his dreams. Written by Ptah Hoteb

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

82 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | April 1, 1967

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the local deceitful governor. All the time Shurik thinks that it is all just a one old Caucasian custom. When he, finally, realizes what he did he goes out in search for the girl of his dreams. Written by Ptah Hoteb
IMDb rating 8.3
Producers Mosfilm, Goskino USSR
Original title Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика
Directors Igor Bityukov, Leonid Gaidai
Writers Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy, Leonid Gaidai

Cast

Natalya Varley

as Nina

Yuriy Nikulin

as "Dunce"

Georgiy Vitsin

as Coward"

Yevgeni Morgunov

as "Stager"

Vladimir Etush

as Saakhov

Frunzik Mkrtchyan

as Jabrail

Ruslan Akhmetov

as Edik

Nina Grebeshkova

as nurse

Emmanuil Geller

as kebab seller

Georgi Millyar

as Domino player

Pyotr Repnin

as Doctor of psychiatric hospital

Georgi Svetlani

as drunkard / drunk man

Mikhail Gluzskiy

as hotel administrator

Donara Mkrtchyan

as Jabrail's wife

Aleksey Stroev

as waiter Alyosha

Aida Vedishcheva

as Nina (uncredited)

Leonid Dovlatov

as judge

Guseyn Akhundov

as domino player