Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

8.3TV-1377 minDirector: Leonid Gaidai

1967 Soviet comedy film

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.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Kidnapping, Caucasian Style about?
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) — In this comic story, nerdy Shurik travels to the Caucasus in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the local deceitful governor. All the time Shurik
Is Kidnapping, Caucasian Style based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
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