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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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