Kidnapping, Caucasian Style

Name: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1967
Duration: 82 min

1h 22m · 1967 · Directed by Leonid Gaidai · 3.7 / 5 on Letterboxd

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) runs 1h 22m, directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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.

Genres: Comedy

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