Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika
82 min
Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
- Release date
- April 1, 1967
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Aleksandr Demyanenko as Shurik
- Natalya Varley as Nina
- Yuriy Nikulin as Balbes
- Georgiy Vitsin as Trus
- Evgeniy Morgunov as Byvalyy
- Vladimir Etush as Comrade Saakhov
- Frunzik Mkrtchyan as Dzhabrail
- Ruslan Akhmetov as Edik
- Nina Grebeshkova as doctor
- Mikhail Gluzskiy as hotel administrator
- Emmanuil Geller as Shashlychnik
- Georgiy Millyar as hospitable host
- Pyotr Repnin as head physician of the mental hospital
- Georgiy Svetlani as (uncredited)
- Moris Slobodskoy as (uncredited)
- Leonid Dovlatov as (uncredited)
- Nikolay Garo as (uncredited)
- Guseyn Akhundov as (uncredited)
- Artyom Karapetyan as narrator (voice) / shashlychnik (voice) (uncredited)
- Nadezhda Rumyantseva as Nina (voice) (uncredited)
- Noy Avaliani as Rabotnik gostinitsy
Crew
- Leonid Gaidai · Director
- Leonid Gaidai · Writer
- Yakov Kostyukovskiy · Writer
- Moris Slobodskoy · Writer
- Aleksandr Zatsepin · Composer
- Konstantin Brovin · Cinematographer
- Valentina Yankovskaya · Editor
- Vladimir Kaplunovskiy · Production designer