Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

Original title

Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика

Directed by

Leonid Gaidai

Genre

adventure film, comedy drama, romance film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

16

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 287 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bumbling student named Shurik tries to help a young woman named Nina avoid a forced marriage. Three comical criminals scheme to carry out the kidnapping of the bride.

lightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedcomicalmusicalromanticslapstickzany

What happens

Prisoner of the Caucasus or Shurik's New Adventures (Russian: Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика) is a 1967 Soviet romantic musical comedy film dealing with a plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern 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 American Three Stooges. The film premiered in Moscow on 1 April 1967. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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