Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

1967

1h 22m

7.6(287 votes)

Comedy

Overview

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.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Shurik

Natalya Varley

Natalya Varley

Nina

Yuriy Nikulin

Yuriy Nikulin

Balbes

Georgiy Vitsin

Georgiy Vitsin

Trus

Yevgeni Morgunov

Yevgeni Morgunov

Byvalyy

Vladimir Etush

Vladimir Etush

сomrade Saakhov

Mher Mkrtchyan

Mher Mkrtchyan

Dzhabrail

Ruslan Akhmetov

Ruslan Akhmetov

Edik

Noy Avaliani

Noy Avaliani

hotel worker

Nina Grebeshkova

Nina Grebeshkova

doctor

Creative team

Directed by: Leonid Gaidai
Written by: Moris Slobodskoy
Yakov Kostyukovskiy

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