Russian comedy ‘Kidnapping Caucasian style’ dealing with the theme of bride kidnapping will be screened at 6 pm on June 23at the Russian Centre, Colombo.
The title is a play on The Prisoner of the Caucasus, which is a poem by Alexander Pushkin as well as a short story by Leo Tolstoy and the film revolves around a kind, yet naïve, student named Shurik who goes to a place in the Caucasus to learn the ancient customs of the locals and falls in love with a girl called Nina (Natalya Varley). Her uncle (Frunzik Mkrtchyan) sells her as a bride without her knowledge and arranges to have her kidnapped by the eccentric trio: Coward, Fool and Experienced.
After a failed attempt, the uncle decides to trick Shurik into helping with the kidnapping - telling him that it is a traditional custom and that it was Nina’s own wish. Shurik goes through with the kidnapping, and does not figure out what has really happened at first, but with the help of a friend he manages to rescue Nina from her captors.
Directed by Leonid Gaidai, the film was hugely popular, topping the Soviet box office of 1967 with 76.54 million viewers.
‘Kidnapping Caucasian style’ is played by Aleksandr Demyanenko Natalya Varleym, Yuri Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Georgy Vitsin, Vladimir Etush and Frunzik Mkrtchyan. |
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