Kidnapping, Caucasian Style!

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style!
Directed by	Maxim Voronkov
Produced by	Maxim Voronkov Valery Glukhov Ilya Oleynikov
Written by	Kirill Zubkov
Based on	Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Starring	Dmitry Sharakois Anastasia Zadorozhnaya Gennady Khazanov
Music by	Aleksandr Zatsepin
Cinematography	Alexey Belyaev
Edited by	Yekaterina Pivneva
Production company	Ilya Oleynikov's Producer Сenter
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date	August 21, 2014 (2014-08-21)
Running time	95 min
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style! (Russian: Кавказская пленница!; informally referred to as the Kidnapping, Caucasian Style 2) is a Russian comedy film by director Maxim Voronkov. A remake of the 1967 film Kidnapping, Caucasian Style directed by Leonid Gaidai,^[1] it has a humorous plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Northern Caucasus.

The film premiered on 21 August 2014 with an age restriction of 12+ and dedicated to the memory of Ilya Oleynikov.^[2][3] As was the case with the original, filming was done in the Crimea, not in the North Caucasus.^[4]

The movie was met with strongly negative reviews in the Russian media and was a box office bomb.

Plot

The plot as a whole repeats the story of the original comedy: Shura journalist arrives in the Caucasus in order to study local culture and folklore. In the town of Gorsk he meets a girl Nina, the local governor Saakhov plans to marry. Using a journalist, Saakhov and his henchmen (Coward, Fool and Pro) kidnapped Nina. Realizing that he had been deceived, Shura rushes to rescue his beloved.

Nevertheless, there are some differences from the original. For example, Nina falls in love Shurik not by coincidence, when the fate of their repeatedly clashed together, and from the beginning of the film. Also, the ending of the story was changed.

Cast

• Dmitry Sharakois as Shura, a journalist (voiced by Sergei Burunov)
• Anastasia Zadorozhnaya as Nina
• Gennady Khazanov as Saakhov
• Nikolai Dobrynin as the Fool
• Semyon Strugachyov as the Coward
• Sergey Stepanchenko as the Pro
• Mikhail Yefremov as hotel administrator
• Yuli Gusman as head physician of the psychiatric hospital
• Ruslana Pysanka as taxi driver
• Euclid Kyurdzidis as policeman
• Larisa Udovichenko as nurse

Criticism

Reception of the movie was strongly negative.^[5] Extremely negative reviews of the film have published editions Afisha,^[6] Komsomolskaya Pravda,^[7] Gazeta.ru,^[8] Mail.ru.^[9] Most critics viewed the remake as a bad copy of the original, which it reproduces almost frame by frame; with the rare moments of originality being unsuccessful.

The site Megacritic scored the film 25 points out of 100,^[10] and KinoPoisk – 1.1 out of 10. The film was also a flop at the box office, collecting $179,843 with a budget of $3.5 million.^[11]

References

External links

• Kidnapping, Caucasian Style! on IMDb