Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

(1967)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 296 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1967

Runtime: 82 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Леонид Гайдай

Cast: Александр Демьяненко, Наталья Варлей, Юрий Никулин, Георгий Вицин, Евгений Моргунов, Владимир Этуш, Фрунзик Мкртчян, Руслан Ахметов, Ной Авалиани, Нина Гребешкова

Plot

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.

In this comic story, nerdy Shurik travels to the Caucasus in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the local deceitful governor. All the time Shurik thinks that it is all just a one old Caucasian custom. When he, finally, realizes what he did he goes out in search for the girl of his dreams.