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.

• Mosfilm
• Goskino USSR
• Aleksandr Demyanenko
• Natalya Varley
• Yuriy Nikulin
• Georgiy Vitsin
• Yevgeni Morgunov
• Vladimir Etush
• Frunzik Mkrtchyan
• Ruslan Akhmetov