Kavkazskaya plennitsa, ili Novye priklyucheniya Shurika (Kidnapping Caucassian Style) Page #2

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I'm taking this down.

Who is he?

- Must be a reporter.

- Ah, a reporter!

AII right, to quote Arkady Raikin,

a woman is a friend of man.

Hooray for you!

We must drink a toast to girIs...

Give that back! Give me back

my horn, I teII you!

That's my horn!

He was the cause ofthe faiIure of

the Wedding PaIace ceremony.

Then, upon the ruins ofthe chapeI...

Excuse me...

Did I destroy the chapeI too?

No, that was done in the 14th century.

As I was saying, upon the ruins of

the chapeI...

This is aII quite right.

Yes, it's aII exact.

Everything is put down correctIy.

It's perfect, very good.

But it's onIy one side ofthe case.

And what's the other side?

This feIon is not a feIon,

he's a great man of science,

he's an inteIIectuaI.

He has come to visit us.

He's gathering stories...

Iegends, you know... toasts.

- Toasts?

- Yes, toasts.

I guess he overestimated

his potentiaI, right?

What we have here

is an on-the-job accident.

I've got

a magnificent toast.

HoteI

You have a very wrong idea

about our region.

Everybody knows the Kuzbass is...

Kuzbass is the forge

ofthe Soviet Union, right?

Kuban is our granary...

- And Caucasus is... what?

- Our sanatorium!

Sanatorium?

No!

Caucasus is the forge, the granary

and the sanatorium ofthe Soviet Union.

My dear friend, where did you

disappear?

Last night I remembered a spIendid

oId toast. Come aIong.

Wait. I must speak to Shurik.

Why don't you put down your toast,

and make three copies of it,

and present it in writing.

I'II do it!

It's my dream to record

some ancient ceremony.

It wouId be great

if I couId take part in it.

Listen, where can we find it...

Look around at what's going on.

No, in our region, the oId ways

and traditions are dead.

Perhaps high up in the mountains,

you might find something

for your science,

but not down here.

- Then I'II go up there.

- Right. It's yourjob, isn't it?

You've come here

to record fairy taIes,

and we are working here

to make fairy taIes reaI.

Yes?

I've brought the toast.

FeeIing bad, eh?

- Who gave you permission?

- You toId me to bring three copies.

Life is grand, isn't it?

- And the grand Iife is even better!

- You're right!

Administrator of RegionaI Economy

B.G. Saakhov

Aren't you ashamed ofyourseIf?

You'd cheat a poor orphan?

She got nobody but her uncIe and aunt.

Twenty five.

I respect your niece,

but there're Iimits to everything.

- Eighteen.

- Have you got no shame?

After aII, you're getting not a goat,

but a wife, and what a wife!

A student, a KomsomoI member,

an athIete, a beauty...

And for aII that I'm asking 25 sheep.

It's a reaI bargain!

That's bad apoIiticaI reasoning. You

are bIind to the poIiticaI situation.

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