Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Synopsis
The engine of a Russian fighter plane sputters, and the pilot lands in the middle of a tiny farming village. Chonkin, a Red Army private with little talent for soldiering is dispatched to stand guard until the engine is repaired. Chonkin, a farmboy himself, quickly endears himself to Nyura a beautiful young peasant girl. He pushes the small plane into her garden, where he can keep an eye on it, and settles into tending house and potato patch while Nyura makes her daily rounds as postmistress. In bed, the virile but uncommitted suitor boasts of his skills as a pilot, thinking his little lie never put to a test. Their idyll is interrupted when the German army invades Russia...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : mk2 films, La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Portobello pictures, Studio Trite, Fandango
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Eric Abraham
- Screenwriter : Zdeneck Sverak
- Director of Photography : Jaromir Sofr
- Music Composer : Jiri Sust
- Editors : Jiri Brozek, Élisabeth Guido
- Sound recordists : Jiri Moudry, Jean-Claude Laureux
- Author of original work : Vladimir Voinovitch
- Co-producer : Marin Karmitz
- Production Manager : Yvon Crenn
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Production Designer : Milan Bycek
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : Russian
- Coproducer countries : Czech Republic, France, Italy, Great Britain, Russia
- Original French-language productions : No
