Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
April 3, 1967
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.
Cast and crew
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Leonid Gaidai
Director
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
ZA
Zoya Alieva
(uncredited)
Georgi Svetlani
(uncredited)
Moris Slobodskoy
(uncredited)
Leonid Dovlatov
(uncredited)
NG
Nikolai Garo
(uncredited)
BG
Bogdan Galustyan
(uncredited)
VC
Vladimir Chibisov
(uncredited)
YT
Yuri Tikhonov
(uncredited)
Amandurdy Khojakuliev
(uncredited)
II
Ivan Ivanchenko
(uncredited)
Guseyn Akhundov
(uncredited)
Muin Mukhitdinov
(uncredited)
Artyom Karapetyan
narrator (voice)
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Nina (voice) (uncredited)