Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Shurik
Nina
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Trus
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сomrade Saakhov
Dzhabrail
Edik
hotel worker
doctor
hotel administrator
shashlychnik
hospitable host
Dzhabrail's wife
head physician of the mental hospital
Alyosha
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narrator (voice) / shashlychnik (voice) (uncredited)
Nina (voice) (uncredited)
