Weekly Russian Film Screening: Кавказская пленница (Kidnapping, Caucasian Style)

Date and Time

April 10, 2015
03:00PM - 03:00PM EDT

Location

Barker Center 373, 12 Quincy Street


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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style 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.

Журналист Шурик приезжает на Кавказ, чтобы снять репортаж о местных красотах и традициях, и попадает в Горск, вотчину местного мэра города Георгия Гаджиевича Саахова. Тот, поддерживая моду, заданную губернатором, задумал жениться на молоденькой красавице, спортсменке и даже экстремалке Нине, которая так понравилась Шурику. Используя незадачливого журналиста, Саахов и его подручные похищают Нину. Но, поняв, что его разыграли, Шурик бросается спасать любимую девушку…

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