Aleksey Stroev

Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried.

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.