Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

106 mins | Comedy, Romance, War | Oct. 2, 1994

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.

Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

106 mins | Comedy, Romance, War | Oct. 2, 1994

Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Canal+, Channel Four Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Portobello Pictures, Fandango, Three T Productions, MK2 Productions, La Sept Cinéma, Domenico Procacci
Original title Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina
Directors Jiří Menzel
Writers Vladimir Vojnovich, Zdeněk Svěrák

Cast

Gennadiy Nazarov

as Иван Чонкин

Zoya Buryak

as Нюра

Vladimir Ilin

as Голубев

Marián Labuda

as Opalikov

Aleksei Zharkov

as Gladišev

Yuriy Dubrovin

as Volkov

Sergey Garmash

as Milyaga

Zinoviy Gerdt

as Stalin namesake

Ivan Ryzhov

as Shapkin

Vyacheslav Molokov

as General Drynov

Galina Petrova

as Zinaida

Sergey Batalov

as Kurzov

Olga Anokhina

as Liyshka