Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
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Prisoner of the Caucasus or Shurik's New Adventures is a 1967 Soviet romantic musical comedy film dealing with a plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain
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Yuri Nikulin's Juglans regia has become an object of cultural heritage.
The trio arrive in a red Adler Trumpf Junior similar to the one pictured.
Yuri Nikulin
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Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin was a Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films. He is best known for his roles in Leonid Gaidai's comedies, such as The Diamond Arm and Kidnappin
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
…of the Northern 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 American Three Stooges. The film premiered in Moscow on…
Nikulin in 1977
Nikulin in 1930s
Yuri (second on the left, 1 row) with comrades, 1943-1944
Nikulin performing at the circus in 1960s