RusClub #74 — nadine

[EN] RusClub is a platform for Russian cinema. Alexandra Dementieva selects Russian movies and guides you through the history of Russian cinema.

The movie that will be shown is :
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika (1967, 1h22min)
Director: Leonid Gaidai
Writers: Leonid Gaidai, Yakov Kostyukovskiy, Moris Slobodskoy
Stars: Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Vladimir Etush

An anthropology student heads to the Caucasus in search of folklore and culture and ends up stealing a bride, believing he’s just learning about local tradition.

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.

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[NL] RusClub is een platform voor Russische cinema. Alexandra Dementieva gidst het publiek doorheen de geschiedenis van de Russische cinema aan de hand van geselecteerde films.

[FR] RusClub est une plateforme pour le cinéma russe. Alexandra Dementieva nous fait part de sa sélection de films russes et nous guide à travers l’histoire du cinéma russe.