The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)

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Released:
1994-10-20

Overview:
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

Director:
Jiří Menzel

Runtime:
1h 46min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

  • Cast:
  • Gennadiy Nazarov
    as
    Ivan Chonkin
  • Zoya Buryak
    as
    Nyura
  • Vladimir Ilin
    as
    Golubev
  • Valeriy Zolotukhin
    as
    Kilin
  • Aleksei Zharkov
    as
    Gladyshev