The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin is a 1994 comedy movie directed by Jiří Menzel, with a running time of 1h 46m. It stars Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak and Vladimir Ilin.
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 as Ivan Chonkin
- Zoya Buryak as Nyura
- Vladimir Ilin as Golubev
- Valeriy Zolotukhin as Kilin
- Aleksei Zharkov as Gladyshev
- Yuriy Dubrovin as Volkov
- Sergei Stepanchenko as Butch
- Sergey Garmash as Milyaga
- Zinoviy Gerdt as Stalin
- Marián Labuda as Opalikov
- Mariya Vinogradova as Granny Dunya
- Tatyana Gerbachevskaya as Afrodita