Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

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.

Directed by Leonid Gaidai

Top cast

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Shurik

Natalya Varley

Nina

Yuriy Nikulin

Balbes

Georgiy Vitsin

Trus

Yevgeni Morgunov

Byvalyy

Vladimir Etush

сomrade Saakhov

Mher Mkrtchyan

Dzhabrail

Ruslan Akhmetov

Edik

Noy Avaliani

hotel worker

Nina Grebeshkova

doctor

Mikhail Gluzskiy

hotel administrator

Emmanuil Geller

shashlychnik

Georgi Millyar

hospitable host

Donara Mkrtchyan

Dzhabrail's wife

Pyotr Repnin

head physician of the mental hospital

Aleksey Stroev

Alyosha

Z

Zoya Alieva

(uncredited)

Georgi Svetlani

(uncredited)

Moris Slobodskoy

(uncredited)

Leonid Dovlatov

(uncredited)

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