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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Russian: Кавказская пленница) is a 1967 Soviet comedy film dealing with a humorous plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.
The original title derives from the Alexander Pushkin poem, "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", and Leo Tolstoy's short story, "The Prisoner of the Caucasus". The film was directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is the last film featuring the trio of the "Coward" (Georgy Vitsin), the "Fool" (Yuri Nikulin), and the "Pro" (Yevgeny Morgunov), a group of bumbling antiheroes similar in some ways to the Three Stooges. The film premiered in Moscow on April 1, 1967.
Original Release
04/01/1967
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aleksandr Demyanenko | Shurik |
Natalya Varley | Nina |
Vladimir Etush | Comrade Saakhov / Saakhov |
Frunzik Mkrtchyan | Dzhabrail / Jabrail |
Ruslan Akhmetov | Edik |
Yuriy Nikulin | Balbes / "Dunce" |
Georgiy Vitsin | Trus / Coward" |
Evgeniy Morgunov | Byvalyy / "Stager" |
Noy Avaliani | Rabotnik gostinitsy |
Emmanuil Geller | Shashlichnik / kebab seller |
Directors
Writers
Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aleksandr Demyanenko | Shurik |
Natalya Varley | Nina |
Vladimir Etush | Comrade Saakhov / Saakhov |
Frunzik Mkrtchyan | Dzhabrail / Jabrail |
Ruslan Akhmetov | Edik |
Yuriy Nikulin | Balbes / "Dunce" |
Georgiy Vitsin | Trus / Coward" |
Evgeniy Morgunov | Byvalyy / "Stager" |
Noy Avaliani | Rabotnik gostinitsy |
Emmanuil Geller | Shashlichnik / kebab seller |
Mikhail Gluzskiy | Administrator gostinitsy / hotel administrator |
Nina Grebeshkova | Doktor / nurse |
Georgiy Millyar | Gostepriimnyy khozyain s rogom / Domino player |
Donara Mkrtchyan | Zhena dzhabraila / Jabrail's wife |
Pyotr Repnin | Glavvrach psikhbolnitsy / Doctor of psychiatric hospital |
Nadezhda Rumyantseva | Nina |
Georgiy Svetlani | Ded u pivnoiy bochki / drunkard / drunk man |
Aida Vedishcheva | Nina |
Guseyn Akhundov | domino player |
Iván Amozurrutia | Alyosha / waiter Alyosha |