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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)
Directed by Jiří Menzel
Comedy, Drama · 1h 46m
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
T
Tatyana Gerbachevskaya
Afrodita
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Screenplay
- Zdeněk Svěrák
- Novel
- Vladimir Vojnovich
- Director of Photography
- Jaromír Šofr
- Original Music Composer
- Jiří Šust
- Editor
- Jiří Brožek
- Producer
- Eric Abraham
Details
- Release date
- 1994-10-20
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic, France, Italy, Russia, United Kingdom
- Production
- Domenico Procacci, Fandango, Portobello Pictures, mk2 Films, CNC, Canal+, Studio Trite, La Sept Cinéma, Film4 Productions