Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures
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| Directed by | Leonid Gaidai |
| Produced by | Mosfilm |
| Written by | Yakov Kostyukovsky Moris Slobodskoy Leonid Gaidai |
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Aleksandr Demyanenko Natalya Varley Yuri Nikulin Yevgeny Morgunov Georgy Vitsin Vladimir Etush Frunzik Mkrtchyan |
| Music by | Aleksandr Zatsepin |
| Cinematography | Konstantin Brovin |
| Distributed by | Mosfilm |
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77 min |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
 If I were a Sultan ("Eсли б я был султан…")Trying to encourage Nina to have some breakfast, the trio, led by Fool (Nikulin) entertain her with a song about the pros and contras of having three wives at once. They get carried away a bit with their own performance, and Nina escapes. |
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Russian: Кавказская пленница) is a 1967 Soviet comedy film dealing with a humorous plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.
The original title derives from the Alexander Pushkin poem, The Prisoner of the Caucasus, and Leo Tolstoy's short story, The Prisoner of the Caucasus. The film was directed by Leonid Gaidai. It is the last film featuring the trio of the "Coward" (Georgy Vitsin), the "Fool" (Yuri Nikulin), and the "Pro" (Yevgeny Morgunov), a group of bumbling antiheroes similar in some ways to the Three Stooges. The film premiered in Moscow on April 1, 1967. Film had strong similarity with early (1930) Hollywood film The Rogue Song by Irving Thalberg.
As a result of the popularity of the earlier film, Operation Y, Yakov Kostyukovsky and Moris Slobodsky requested Mosfilm to support a new film about the character of Shurik. The screenplay for the new film was initially titled "Shurik in the mountains" and was divided into two parts. The first part, "Prisoner of the Caucasus", was about the student Nina who comes to visit her relatives in the Caucasus and is kidnapped by a local director named Okhokhov. The second part, "Snow Man and Others", was about a scientific expedition seeking the Yeti in a mountainous region, with the Coward, the Fool, and the Pro pretending to be the Yeti by way of hiding from the local militia. In the end, Shurik and Nina were supposed to expose the trio. As the process went forward, it was decided to focus on just the first part of the screenplay.
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