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

6.5/10 106 min Comedy Drama

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.

Cast

Gennadiy Nazarov

Ivan Chonkin

Zoya Buryak

Nyura

Vladimir Ilin

Golubev

Valeriy Zolotukhin

Kilin

Aleksei Zharkov

Gladyshev

Yuriy Dubrovin

Volkov

Sergei Stepanchenko

Butch

Sergey Garmash

Milyaga

Zinoviy Gerdt

Stalin

Marián Labuda

Opalikov

Mariya Vinogradova

Granny Dunya

Lyubov Rudneva

Kapa

Ivan Ryzhov

Shapkin

Vyacheslav Molokov

General Drynov

Tatyana Agafonova

Ninka

Galina Petrova

Zinaida

Henryk Bista

Zhikin

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