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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
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Title: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Release Date: 1 Apr 1967

Runtime: 1h 22m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Mosfilm, Goskino USSR

Production Companies: Mosfilm, Goskino USSR

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.9 (240 votes)

Cast

  • фольклорист Шурик: Aleksandr Demyanenko
  • Нина: Natalya Varley
  • Балбес: Yuriy Nikulin
  • Трус: Georgiy Vitsin
  • Бывалый: Yevgeni Morgunov
  • товарищ Саахов: Vladimir Etush
  • дядя Нины Джабраил: Frunzik Mkrtchyan
  • Эдик: Ruslan Akhmetov
  • доктор: Nina Grebeshkova
  • торговец на рынке: Emmanuil Geller
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