Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style is a classic 1967 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, renowned for its slapstick humor and featuring Yuri Nikulin as part of the iconic comic trio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kidnapping, Caucasian Style canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6887022 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style Context triple: [Yuri Nikulin, notableWork, Kidnapping, Caucasian Style]
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A.
The Kidnappers
The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
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B.
The Abductors
The Abductors is a 1972 exploitation crime film about a ring of kidnappers who abduct young women for a white slavery operation.
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C.
Noticia de un secuestro
Noticia de un secuestro is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez that recounts a series of high-profile kidnappings carried out by drug cartels in Colombia.
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D.
Hostage
"Hostage" is a 2005 crime thriller film in which Jonathan Tucker appears alongside Bruce Willis in a tense story about a hostage negotiator drawn into a violent standoff.
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E.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style Target entity description: Kidnapping, Caucasian Style is a classic 1967 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai, renowned for its slapstick humor and featuring Yuri Nikulin as part of the iconic comic trio.
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A.
The Kidnappers
The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
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B.
The Abductors
The Abductors is a 1972 exploitation crime film about a ring of kidnappers who abduct young women for a white slavery operation.
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C.
Noticia de un secuestro
Noticia de un secuestro is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez that recounts a series of high-profile kidnappings carried out by drug cartels in Colombia.
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D.
Hostage
"Hostage" is a 2005 crime thriller film in which Jonathan Tucker appears alongside Bruce Willis in a tense story about a hostage negotiator drawn into a violent standoff.
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E.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, or Shurik's New Adventures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | motifs of Caucasian folklore and Soviet-era anecdotes ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Konstantin Brovin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | became one of the most popular Soviet comedies ⓘ |
| director | Leonid Gaidai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Mosfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Valentina Yankovskaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Soviet cinema of the 1960s ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Shurik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Crimea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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slapstick comedy ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Aleksandr Demyanenko
NERFINISHED
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Georgy Vitsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalya Varley NERFINISHED ⓘ Yevgeny Morgunov NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuri Nikulin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
romantic comedy elements
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satire of Soviet bureaucracy ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Nina
NERFINISHED
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Shurik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Aleksandr Zatsepin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
featuring the comic trio Nikulin, Vitsin, and Morgunov
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iconic Soviet slapstick humor ⓘ popular songs by Aleksandr Zatsepin ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Shurik film series ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A naive ethnography student Shurik travels to the Caucasus and becomes involved in a staged kidnapping of a young woman for a local official. ⓘ |
| producer | Mosfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mosfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1967-04-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 82 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Leonid Gaidai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mikhail Slobodskoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Yakob Kostyukovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Caucasus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Aleksandr Demyanenko
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgy Vitsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalya Varley NERFINISHED ⓘ Yevgeny Morgunov NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuri Nikulin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| titleInRussian | Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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