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.
Shurik
Nina
Balbes
Trus
Byvalyy
Comrade Saakhov
Dzhabrail
Edik
Rabotnik gostinitsy
Doktor
Administrator gostinitsy
Shashlychnik
гостеприимный хозяин с рогом
Zhena Dzhabraila
Glavvrach psikhbolnitsy
Alyosha
судья
доминошник
пьянчужка (uncredited)
Refrigerator driver (uncredited)
капитан милиции (uncredited)