Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika

Apr 3 1967 TV-13 1h 22m
Adventure, Comedy, Romance

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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy

Directed by

Leonid Gaidai

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Production Companies

Goskino USSR, Mosfilm

Languages

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
14,211
Average Rating
8.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA