Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

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
episode (uncredited)

Georgi Svetlani
episode (uncredited)

Moris Slobodskoy
episode (uncredited)

Leonid Dovlatov
episode (uncredited)
Nikolai Garo
episode (uncredited)
Bogdan Galustyan
episode (uncredited)
Vladimir Chibisov
episode (uncredited)
Yuri Tikhonov
episode (uncredited)

Amandurdy Khojakuliev
episode (uncredited)
Ivan Ivanchenko
episode (uncredited)

Guseyn Akhundov
episode (uncredited)
Crew

Leonid Gaidai
Director, Writer

Moris Slobodskoy
Writer

Yakov Kostyukovskiy
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
N. 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

Leonid Derbenyov
Lyricist
N. Abakumov
Set Designer

Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor
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