The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Oct 20, 1994

1h 46m

★ 6.4

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Domenico Procacci

Fandango

Portobello Pictures

MK2 Films

CNC

Canal+

Studio Trite

La Sept Cinéma

Film4 Productions

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Cast

Ivan Chonkin

Gennadiy Nazarov

Nyura

Zoya Buryak

Golubev

Vladimir Ilin

Kilin

Valeriy Zolotukhin

Gladyshev

Aleksei Zharkov

Volkov

Yuriy Dubrovin

Butch

Sergei Stepanchenko

Milyaga

Sergey Garmash

Stalin

Zinoviy Gerdt

Opalikov

Marián Labuda

Granny Dunya

Mariya Vinogradova

Afrodita

Tatyana Gerbachevskaya

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