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Prisoner of the Caucasus, or Shurik's New Adventures (
Russian:
Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика,
Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novie priklucheniya Shurika) also known as
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style - a famous
Soviet-era
Russian comedy film directed by
Leonid Gaidai, the last film featuring the famous trio Coward — Fool — Experienced (
Vitsin —
Nikulin —
Morgunov). The premier of the film was on the
April 1 1967 in
Moscow.
Plot summary
A kind, yet naïve, student named Shurik (
Demyanenko) goes to a place in the
Caucasus to learn the ancient customs of the locals. He falls in love with a girl called Nina (
Varley), her uncle (
Mkrtchyan) sells her as a bride without her knowledge and arranges to have her
kidnapped by the eccentric trio: Coward, Fool and Experienced. After a failed attempt, the uncle decides to trick Shurik into helping with the kidnapping - telling him that it's a traditional custom and that it was Nina's own wish. Shurik goes through with the kidnapping, and doesn't figure out what has really happened at first, but with the help of a friend he manages to rescue Nina from her captors.
Casting of main characters
Production
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style followed the success of
Leonid Gaidai's previous film
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, which featured some of the same characters (Shurik and the trio Fool, Coward and Experienced) and was largely successful within the Soviet Union.
According to one of the writers, Yakov Kostyukovsky, Gaidai has decided that the trio (Fool, Coward and Experienced) have been used up and didn't want to feature them again; he was only convinced to feature them again by Kostyukovsky and co-writer Slobodskoy.
Trivia
Vitsin (Coward) was known to improvise many comedic moments for his character and the directors never minded it, with an example in this movie being when the trio are standing on the road, arm in arm, trying to make the car Nina is in to stop. Coward, being a coward, and being portrayed by Vitsin, starts whimpering and crying, trying to get away from the other guys' arms, not wanting to be run over. In a climax he falls to the ground on his knees whimpering, but when the car stops, he jumps up all excited.
Another example is when Nina was chased by the trio, she ran into the forest, and dropped her yellow table cloth that she used as a dress. Vitsin (the Coward) runs by and sees it and starts yelling like a little girl, hopping up and down out of fright, but then only realising that it was the table cloth, he acted brave and picked it up, only being interrupted with Nina and the other two from the trio running out of the forest being chased by a bear.
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