Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Directed by Leonid Gaidai
Starring Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Yuriy Nikulin, Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov, Vladimir Etush, Mher Mkrtchyan, Ruslan Akhmetov, Noy Avaliani, Nina Grebeshkova
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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.
- Original title
- Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика
- Original language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Screenplay
- Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Leonid Gaidai, Moris Slobodskoy
- Music
- Aleksandr Zatsepin
- Cinematography
- Konstantin Brovin
- Cast
- Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov, Vladimir Etush, Mher Mkrtchyan, Ruslan Akhmetov, Noy Avaliani, Nina Grebeshkova
Updated August 14, 2026
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