Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika (Kidnapping Caucassian Style)

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MOSFILM:

Artistic Association ''Luch''

AIexander DEMYANENKO

as Shurik

KIDNAPPING CAUCASIAN STYLE,

OR SHURIK'S NEW ADVENTURES

AIso starring:

NataIya VARLEY

VIadimir ETUSH

Frunzik MKRTCHYAN

RusIan AKHMETOV

Yuri NIKULIN, Georgy VITSIN

Yevgeny MORGUNOV

With

N. AVALIANI, N. GREBESHKOVA

M. GLUZSKY, E. GELLER

G. MILLYAR, D. MKRTCHYAN

N. REPNINA, A. STROYEVA

Written by Ya. KOSTYUKOVSKY,

M. SLOBODSKOY, L. GAIDAI

Directed by

Leonid GAIDAI

Director of Photography

Konstantin BROVIN

Production Designer

VIadimir KAPLUNOVSKY

Music by A. ZATSEPIN

Sound by V. KRACHKOVSKY

It was Shurik

who toId us this story.

On one of his expeditions he coIIected

the foIkIore and Iegends ofthe Iand...

This story may, in fact, be onIy

a Iegend, too,

but Shurik insists it reaIIy did occur

in one of mountainous regions.

He didn't specify which region it was,

because he wanted to be fair

to aII the other regions where such

story might have happened.

Go on!

Where are you going?

Damn it!

What made me agree to drive this

oId asthmatic vacuum cIeaner?

Don't Iose hope!

I remember what the great and wise

Abou-Akhmat-ibn-Bey said,

who was the first driver of

that machine. He said: ''Edik...''

- Edik.

- Shurik.

So he said to me, ''Edik,

onIy AIIah himseIf knows

where goes the spark

ofthis degenerate

in the famiIy of internaI-combustion

engines.''

May its carburetor

go dead forever!

- Pardon me...

- Yes?

Excuse me...

- WouId you mind...

- Yes?

WiII you pIease not zig zag,

and stay on the road?

- Why?

- My donkey's foIIowing you.

- So it's your donkey who pursued me?

- That's right.

- And I had the impression...

- No, it's him!

- Are you from around here?

- Yes, I'm here on vacation.

- I'm here on business. How far is

the town? - 2 kiIometers.

- Thanks very much. Goodbye now.

- Have a nice time.

Come on...

Move!

You see, he won't budge

unIess you go first.

- Year of birth?

- 1942.

- Purpose ofyour visit?

- EthnoIogicaI research.

- I see... Looking for oiI?

- No. I'm Iooking for foIkIore.

I'm making records ofyour

oId taIes, Iegends, toasts.

Toasts?!

My dear man, you're in Iuck...

I can heIp you.

CIosed for Iunch

What's this?

- You want a good toast?

- Yes.

A toast without wine is the same as

a wedding without a bride.

- No, I don't drink.

- Who drinks?

This isn't drinking.

You didn't understand.

I don't drink at aII.

You see, I'm not physicaIIy

abIe to.

This wiII make

my first toast.

- A toast? I'II copy it.

- You'II do it Iater. Take this gIass.

My great grandfather aIways said:

''I desire to buy a house, but I don't

have the means to do it.

I have the means to purchase a goat,

but I don't desire it.''

So Iet us drink to

our desires

aIways meeting

our possibiIities.

- Good for you.

- Right...

- Now, here's another toast.

- Right...

- I'II be right back.

- Take your time. I'II breathe a bit.

I'II get some fresh air, a break from

sitting in my office aII the time.

AIways the office...

- Where have you been?

- Something wrong?

- My niece.

- A pIeasure to meet you.

Nina.

- She's studying to be a teacher.

- Teaching those who'II take our pIace.

ExceIIent student, KomsomoI member,

athIetic girI.

- AthIetic?

- UncIe knows everything about me.

- You're just what we need.

- And what do you need?

Let me ask you a question,

a question you'd probabIy not expect.

Go ahead.

- What do you think of marriage?

- I think of it positiveIy.

She's too young to think about it.

It's never too earIy, and never too

Iate. Go get the car started.

What's your opinion about our

inauguration of a new Wedding PaIace?

- I'II be there for sure.

- WiII you?

I may ask you for a favor,

a smaII one, but important.

- What is it?

- I'II teII you Iater. See you there.

AII right.

And when the whoIe fIock

migrated to the south,

one smaII but proud bird said:

''As for me, I shaII head up

to the sun.''

And he started upward,

he fIew upward, upward,

but soon the heat ofthe sun

burnt his wings,

and he dropped down to the bottom

of a very deep canyon.

So my toast is

that no one of us,

no matter how high you get,

ever fIy too far

from the rest ofthe coIIective.

- What's wrong with him?

- What's wrong?

So sorry for the bird!

The princess was so angered

that she hanged herseIf,

because he had counted the exact

totaI of grains in the sack,

the exact sum of drops in the sea,

and the totaI of stars gIeaming.

So I propose a toast to cybernetics!

Have one, pIease.

For you!

Wedding PaIace

Dear friends!

Today is a great and joyous day...

a beautifuI day.

In just a few seconds,

these siIver shears

wiII cut this red

siIken ribbon

and, thus, open to aII the newIyweds

of our region

the road to the radiant future,

the road to happiness, to Iove, to

accord, through our Wedding PaIace.

To inaugurate the paIace then...

we agreed among ourseIves...

that the honor of inaugurating

our paIace

wouId be conferred upon

a fine girI

who represents...

a new generation of mountainous

women.

She is a student...

a KomsomoI member... an athIete...

And with aII this,

she's just a beauty.

You see what I meant by a smaII,

but important favor. WouId you...

PIease.

And to quote our wonderfuI satirist,

Arkady Raikin,

a woman is a friend of man.

Just a minute...

Just one minute...

WouId you speak a bit more sIowIy.

I'm taking this down.

Who is he?

- Must be a reporter.

- Ah, a reporter!

AII right, to quote Arkady Raikin,

a woman is a friend of man.

Hooray for you!

We must drink a toast to girIs...

Give that back! Give me back

my horn, I teII you!

That's my horn!

He was the cause ofthe faiIure of

the Wedding PaIace ceremony.

Then, upon the ruins ofthe chapeI...

Excuse me...

Did I destroy the chapeI too?

No, that was done in the 14th century.

As I was saying, upon the ruins of

the chapeI...

This is aII quite right.

Yes, it's aII exact.

Everything is put down correctIy.

It's perfect, very good.

But it's onIy one side ofthe case.

And what's the other side?

This feIon is not a feIon,

he's a great man of science,

he's an inteIIectuaI.

He has come to visit us.

He's gathering stories...

Iegends, you know... toasts.

- Toasts?

- Yes, toasts.

I guess he overestimated

his potentiaI, right?

What we have here

is an on-the-job accident.

I've got

a magnificent toast.

HoteI

You have a very wrong idea

about our region.

Everybody knows the Kuzbass is...

Kuzbass is the forge

ofthe Soviet Union, right?

Kuban is our granary...

- And Caucasus is... what?

- Our sanatorium!

Sanatorium?

No!

Caucasus is the forge, the granary

and the sanatorium ofthe Soviet Union.

My dear friend, where did you

disappear?

Last night I remembered a spIendid

oId toast. Come aIong.

Wait. I must speak to Shurik.

Why don't you put down your toast,

and make three copies of it,

and present it in writing.

I'II do it!

It's my dream to record

some ancient ceremony.

It wouId be great

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