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.
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Title: Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika (1967)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Aleksandr Demyanenko | ... | Shurik | |
| Natalya Varley | ... | Nina | |
| Ruslan Akhmetov | ... | Edik | |
| Yuriy Nikulin | ... | Booby | |
| Georgiy Vitsin | ... | Coward | |
| Evgeniy Morgunov | ... | Experienced | |
| Vladimir Etush | ... | Comrade Saakhov | |
| Mher Mkrtchyan | ... | Gabriel, Nina's uncle (as Frunzik Mkrtchyan) | |
| Nina Grebeshkova | ... | doctor | |
| Mikhail Gluzskiy | ... | Hotel clerk | |
| Georgiy Millyar | ... | Hospitable host, a lover of dominoes | |
| Emmanuil Geller | |||
| Pyotr Repnin | |||
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Noy Avaliani | ... | (as N. Avaliani) |
| Donara Mkrtchyan | ... | Gabriel's wife (as D. Mkrtchyan) | |
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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 Ptah Hoteb <ptah_@hotmail.com>
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Country:
Soviet UnionLanguage:
RussianRelease Date:
3 April 1967 (Soviet Union) See more »Also Known As:
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RUR 25,313 (estimated)Company Credits
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Experienced: And to live well is even better!
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("If I Was a Sultan")
Music by Aleksandr Zatsepin
Lyrics by Yakov Kostyukovskiy and Moris Slobodskoy
Performed by Yuriy Nikulin (solo), Georgiy Vitsin and Evgeniy Morgunov
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Yuriy Nikulin and Evgeniy Morgunov initially refused to be part of the film as they felt the screenplay was too unrealistic. See more »Goofs
When the kidnappers are running through the forest chased by a wild bear, the bear has a leather collar around its neck. See more »Quotes
Coward: To live, as they say, is well!Experienced: And to live well is even better!
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Esli b ya byl sultan("If I Was a Sultan")
Music by Aleksandr Zatsepin
Lyrics by Yakov Kostyukovskiy and Moris Slobodskoy
Performed by Yuriy Nikulin (solo), Georgiy Vitsin and Evgeniy Morgunov
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This is a comedy that will keep a smile on your lips throughout. The actors do as fine a job as any slapstick comedians I have seen and the humor translates across generations. This is a film that is many things in one: a family film (nothing offensive here), a piece of historical culture (especially with its snide jokes about lazy, corrupt bureaucrats, which surely skated close to the censors in the old USSR -- but just as certainly resonated with the viewing public then and now), and a delightfully dated comedy complete with mid-60s music and hair.
I recommend viewing the DVD in the original Russian language, using subtitles if you do not understand Russian. The subtitles are not obtrusive, and to employ dubbing is to lose the wonderful vocal intonations and characterizations of the original actors.
This is a very good film, at least an 8 out of 10. Get a copy of the DVD and enjoy!