Leofwine_draca KIDNAPPING, CAUCASIAN STYLE is another film featuring Aleksandr Demyanenko's geeky lead character Shurik. The whole plot of this one sees Shurik chasing the girl of his dreams, only to find out that she's involved with some local gangsters, so various comedy scenes ensue. You know the type of humour you'll see here: mistaken identities, slapstick, random interludes with donkeys, athletics, and the like. The acting is exaggerated and the actors mug through a lot of their scenes, but the direction is energetic and the soundtrack a good one that fits the action well. The comedy is quite silly but it did get me laughing a few times. It's perhaps not the funniest Russian comedy I've watched, but it provides an hour and a half of undemanding fun regardless.

Gunars Pastars I't is one of the best motion pictures from that time(1950-1970). This movie represents very much of that time like the traditions, cheating, and the stealing, and not to forget the unforgettable atmosphere of these movies. watching this movie you can see how was the living in the USSR union. I found funny the scene where Shurik was riding on the donkey(at the end of the movie) on an asphalted road, the funny thing is that, that so good roads were hard to find in the USSR. i think that the crew who where searching the places where to film the movie where exhausted searching in the caucasus such a good road.I would say that everyone who wants to see how lived the people in the USSR, should watch this movie. p.s. sorry for my poor English skills. :)

ybelov-2 Probably the best Soviet comedy, loved by all Russians, be they now capitalists, communists, nationalists or whatever. Star actors of our cinema. Many lines have become sayings in Russian. The Caucasus of the Soviet times, gone forever... 10/10.

SMalamud Not the best of Gaidai's creations, but still pretty good. Demyanenko was never much of an actor but he has exactly the kind of goodhearted-idiot look about himself to make his Shurik one of the favorite characters in Russian cinematography. Nikulin, Morgunov and Vitsin are back as the Keystone Kops-like trio of bumbling villains and they are quite funny, as always. Secondary characters of this musical comedy set in the Caucasus mountains are the exotic and colorful locals who are hysterical with their offbeat drinking toasts and fancy manner of speech. Once again, non-Russians won't get most of the ethnic humor (which is the best part of the movie - those toasts have become real classics), but the rest is just slapstick comedy, quite old by now, but I guess it was OK for the 60's. Very good music, especially Nina's "Polar Bears" song.