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.

Aleksandr Demyanenko
as Shurik

Natalya Varley
as Nina

Yuriy Nikulin
as Balbes

Georgiy Vitsin
as Trus

Yevgeni Morgunov
as Byvalyy

Vladimir Etush
as сomrade Saakhov

Mher Mkrtchyan
as Dzhabrail

Ruslan Akhmetov
as Edik

Noy Avaliani
as hotel worker

Nina Grebeshkova
as doctor