Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Journalist Shurik arrives in the Caucasus in order to study local culture and folklore, the ancient customs and traditions of the people in this region. Per chance he meets and befriends a girl in a mountainous town, the beauty Nina, which the gouvernor, wealthy and powerful local Saakhov, is planning to marry — if not willingly then by force. Using the gullible journalist as a strawman, Saakhov and his henchmen (the "Coward", the "Fool", and the "Pro", a trio of comic antiheros) are able to kidnap Nina, all seems to work according to plan. But realizing that he had been deceived, Shurik, who fell for Nina, rushes to rescue his beloved one, for a happy ending.

• Release date
• August 21, 2014
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Romance, Comedy, Adventure
• Director
• Maksim Voronkov

Cast

Dmitriy Sharakois Шурик Anastasiya Zadorozhnaya Нина Gennadiy Khazanov Саахов / судья Ararat Keshchyan Джабраил Semyon Strugachyov Трус Sergei Stepanchenko Бывалый Nikolai Dobrynin Балбес Mikhail Tarabukin Эдик