Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Comedy
7.7

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.

Cast

Aleksandr Demyanenko
Shurik
Natalya Varley
Nina
Yuriy Nikulin
Balbes
Georgiy Vitsin
Trus
Yevgeni Morgunov
Byvalyy
Vladimir Etush
сomrade Saakhov
Mher Mkrtchyan
Dzhabrail
Ruslan Akhmetov
Edik
Noy Avaliani
hotel worker
Nina Grebeshkova
doctor
Mikhail Gluzskiy
hotel administrator
Emmanuil Geller
shashlychnik
Georgi Millyar
hospitable host
Donara Mkrtchyan
Dzhabrail's wife
Pyotr Repnin
head physician of the mental hospital
Aleksey Stroev
Alyosha
Zoya Alieva
(uncredited)
Georgi Svetlani
(uncredited)
Moris Slobodskoy
(uncredited)
Leonid Dovlatov
(uncredited)
Nikolai Garo
(uncredited)
Bogdan Galustyan
(uncredited)
Vladimir Chibisov
(uncredited)
Yuri Tikhonov
(uncredited)
Amandurdy Khojakuliev
(uncredited)
Ivan Ivanchenko
(uncredited)
Guseyn Akhundov
(uncredited)
Muin Mukhitdinov
(uncredited)
Artyom Karapetyan
narrator (voice) / shashlychnik (voice) (uncredited)
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Nina (voice) (uncredited)

Crew

Leonid Gaidai
Director, Writer
Yakov Kostyukovskiy
Writer
Moris Slobodskoy
Writer
Anatoliy Stepanov
Script Editor
Valentina Yankovskaya
Editor
Konstantin Brovin
Director of Photography
Igor Bityukov
First Assistant Director
L. Freydin
Executive Producer
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Production Design
Evgeniy Guslinskiy
Camera Operator
N. Shimilis
Costume Design
Nikolai Mityushkin
Makeup & Hair
Vladimir Krachkovskiy
Sound Director
Aleksandr Klimenko
VFX Supervisor
Igor Felitsyn
VFX Director of Photography
V. Sevostyanov
VFX Director of Photography
Aleksandr Zatsepin
Original Music Composer
Aida Vedishcheva
Songs
Yuriy Nikulin
Songs
Leonid Derbenyov
Lyricist
N. Abakumov
Set Designer
Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor

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