Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
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.
Director: Leonid Gaidai
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Aleksandr Demyanenko as Shurik |
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Natalya Varley as Nina |
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Yuriy Nikulin as Balbes |
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Georgiy Vitsin as Trus |
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Yevgeni Morgunov as Byvalyy |
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Vladimir Etush as сomrade Saakhov |
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Mher Mkrtchyan as Dzhabrail |
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Ruslan Akhmetov as Edik |
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Noy Avaliani as hotel worker |
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Nina Grebeshkova as doctor |
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Mikhail Gluzskiy as hotel administrator |
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Emmanuil Geller as shashlychnik |
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Georgi Millyar as hospitable host |
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Donara Mkrtchyan as Dzhabrail's wife |
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Pyotr Repnin as head physician of the mental hospital |
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Aleksey Stroev as Alyosha |
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Zoya Alieva as (uncredited) |
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Georgi Svetlani as (uncredited) |
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Moris Slobodskoy as (uncredited) |
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Leonid Dovlatov as (uncredited) |
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Nikolai Garo as (uncredited) |
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Bogdan Galustyan as (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Chibisov as (uncredited) |
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Yuri Tikhonov as (uncredited) |
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Amandurdy Khojakuliev as (uncredited) |
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Ivan Ivanchenko as (uncredited) |
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Guseyn Akhundov as (uncredited) |
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Muin Mukhitdinov as (uncredited) |
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Artyom Karapetyan as narrator (voice) / shashlychnik (voice) (uncredited) |
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Nadezhda Rumyantseva as Nina (voice) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Leonid Gaidai | Director |
| Writing | Moris Slobodskoy | Writer |
| Writing | Yakov Kostyukovskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Leonid Gaidai | Writer |
| Art | Vladimir Kaplunovskiy | Production Design |
| Camera | Konstantin Brovin | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Valentina Yankovskaya | Editor |
| Sound | Aleksandr Zatsepin | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | N. Shimilis | Costume Design |
| Sound | Emin Khachaturyan | Conductor |
| Writing | Anatoliy Stepanov | Script Editor |
| Writing | Leonid Derbenyov | Lyricist |
| Production | L. Freydin | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Vladimir Krachkovskiy | Sound Director |
| Directing | Igor Bityukov | First Assistant Director |
| Art | N. Abakumov | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolai Mityushkin | Makeup & Hair |
| Visual Effects | Igor Felitsyn | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | V. Sevostyanov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Klimenko | VFX Supervisor |
| Camera | Evgeniy Guslinskiy | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Aida Vedishcheva | Songs |
| Sound | Yuriy Nikulin | Songs |