Natalya Varley has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Kidnapping, Caucasian Style.
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.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Aleksandr Demyanenko, Natalya Varley, Yuriy Nikulin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Dir. Leonid Gaidai · With Archil Gomiashvili, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
Dir. Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov · With Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin
