---
title: 'Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Leonid Gaidai'
released: '1967-04-01'
runtime_minutes: 77
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kidnapping-caucasian-style-1967'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060584/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)

1967 · 77 min · Adventure, Comedy, Romance · Soviet Union

Original title: Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика

## Synopsis

Prisoner of the Caucasus or Shurik's New Adventures is a 1967 Soviet romantic musical comedy film dealing with a plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Leonid Gaidai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-gaidai)
- **Screenplay:** [Leonid Gaidai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-gaidai), [Yakov Kostyukovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/yakov-kostyukovsky), [Moris Slobodskoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/moris-slobodskoy)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Aleksandr Zatsepin](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-zatsepin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Konstantin Brovin](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-brovin)

## Cast

- [Georgy Vitsin](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgy-vitsin) as The Coward
- [Leonid Dovlatov](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-dovlatov)
- [Vladimir Etush](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-etush)
- [Frunzik Mkrtchyan](https://cinepixo.com/people/frunzik-mkrtchyan)
- [Donara Mkrtchyan](https://cinepixo.com/people/donara-mkrtchyan)
- [Pyotr Repnin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pyotr-repnin)
- [Ruslan Akhmetov](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruslan-akhmetov)
- [Nina Grebeshkova](https://cinepixo.com/people/nina-grebeshkova)
- [Mikhail Gluzsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-gluzsky)
- [Natalya Varley](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalya-varley)
- [Yevgeny Morgunov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeny-morgunov) as The Pro
- [Yuri Nikulin](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuri-nikulin) as The Fool
- [Georgy Millyar](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgy-millyar)
- [Aleksandr Demyanenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-demyanenko)

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