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 Comrade Saakhov
Frunzik Mkrtchyan
as Dzhabrail
Ruslan Akhmetov
as Edik
Ной Авалиани
as Rabotnik gostinitsy
Nina Grebeshkova
as Doktor