Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Overview

Journalist Shurik arrives in the Caucasus in order to study local culture and folklore, the ancient customs and traditions of the people in this region. Per chance he meets and befriends a girl in a mountainous town, the beauty Nina, which the gouvernor, wealthy and powerful local Saakhov, is planning to marry — if not willingly then by force. Using the gullible journalist as a strawman, Saakhov and his henchmen (the "Coward", the "Fool", and the "Pro", a trio of comic antiheros) are able to kidnap Nina, all seems to work according to plan. But realizing that he had been deceived, Shurik, who fell for Nina, rushes to rescue his beloved one, for a happy ending.

Cast

Dmitriy Sharakois

Шурик

Anastasiya Zadorozhnaya

Нина

Gennadiy Khazanov

Саахов / судья

Ararat Keshchyan

Джабраил

Semyon Strugachyov

Трус

Sergei Stepanchenko

Бывалый

Nikolai Dobrynin

Балбес

Mikhail Tarabukin

Эдик

Mikhail Efremov

администратор

Yuli Gusman

главврач

Larisa Udovichenko

врач

Mikhail Vladimirov

Давид / жених