Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

1967 · 1 hr 22 min · TV-13

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Directors

Leonid Gaidai

Actors

  • Aleksandr Demyanenko
  • Natalya Varley
  • Vladimir Etush

Credits: 2

Summary

A young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.

More about this movie

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 thinks that it is all just a one old Caucasian custom. When he, finally, realizes what he did he goes out in search for the girl of his dreams.