EndMOSFILM
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