Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

The story

Journalist Shurik arrives in the Caucasus in order to study local culture and folklore, the ancient customs and traditions of the people in this region. Per chance he meets and befriends a girl in a mountainous town, the beauty Nina, which the gouvernor, wealthy and powerful local Saakhov, is planning to marry — if not willingly then by force. Using the gullible journalist as a strawman, Saakhov and his henchmen (the "Coward", the "Fool", and the "Pro", a trio of comic antiheros) are able to kidnap Nina, all seems to work according to plan. But realizing that he had been deceived, Shurik, who fell for Nina, rushes to rescue his beloved one, for a happy ending.

Cast

D Dmitriy SharakoisШурик A Anastasiya ZadorozhnayaНина G Gennadiy KhazanovСаахов / судья A Ararat KeshchyanДжабраил S Semyon StrugachyovТрус S Sergei StepanchenkoБывалый N Nikolai DobryninБалбес M Mikhail TarabukinЭдик M Mikhail Efremovадминистратор Y Yuli Gusmanглавврач L Larisa Udovichenkoврач M Mikhail VladimirovДавид / жених

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M Mikhail BogdasarovМерим E Evklid Kyurdzidisполицейский I Igor Gasparyanполицейский L Lyubov TikhomirovaСаида R Ruslana Pysankaтаксистка / невеста G Giya Gaguaметрдотель V Vladimir Episkoposyanшашлычник A Anton Eskin"Кутузов" R Roman Savchenkoпациент A Aleksey Dmitrievпациент / мужчина с пивом V Vladimir Dyachkovпостоялец V Veronika Voronkovaдочка Джабраила L Lolita Aushevaгостья S Sergey Zhivotovпостоялец в гостинице