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Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Ji Menzel
| screenplay = Zdenk Svrk
| based_on = Books 1 and 2 of 'The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin' by Vladimir Voinovich
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| cinematography = Jaromr ofr
| editing = Ji Broek
| music = Ji ust
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| runtime = 106 minutes
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'The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin' (, ) is a 1994 comedy-drama film directed by Ji Menzel, based on the first two books of Vladimir Voinovich's novel trilogy of the same name. An international co-production between Russia, Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, it entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal.Edoardo Pittalis, Roberto Pugliese, 'Bella di Notte', August 1996.
Plot
The film is set in 1941 in the Soviet Union before and during the first months of its involvement in World War II.
In the small village of Red makes a forced landing military plane U-2. The command is unable to tow the aircraft and decided to put him near the hour.
The military unit near the village of Red served ordinary Ivan Chonkin. Unpretentious and simple soldiers, who looked far from exemplary soldier, serving his military duty in the economic division of the regiment, doing what works in the kitchen, carrying loads on a horse. It was his command post near to detach aircraft in the village of Red.
Chonkin comes to the village and after a while begins to cohabit with village postmaster Nura. Soon he moves the airplane to Nura's courtyard and moves into her hut.
Cast
*Gennady Nazarov Ivan Chonkin
*Zoya Buryak Nyura
*Vladimir Ilyin Golubev
*Aleksei Zharkov Gladishev
*Valeri Zolotukhin Kilin
*Zinovy Gerdt Moisei Stalin
*Sergei Garmash Milyaga
*Maria Vinogradova Granny Dunia
*Yuri Dubrovin Volkov
*Marin Labuda Opalikov
*Aleksandr Garin Svintsov
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