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.
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as head physician of the mental hospital
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as narrator (voice) / shashlychnik (voice) (uncredited)
as Nina (voice) (uncredited)
