The 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.

• Jiří MenzelDirector
• Jiří ŠustOriginal Music Composer
• Zdeněk SvěrákScreenplay

• Gennadiy NazarovIvan Chonkin
• Zoya BuryakNyura
• Vladimir IlinGolubev
• Valeriy ZolotukhinKilin
• Aleksei ZharkovGladyshev
• Yuriy DubrovinVolkov
• Sergei StepanchenkoButch
• Sergey GarmashMilyaga
• Zinoviy GerdtStalin
• Marián LabudaOpalikov
• Mariya VinogradovaGranny Dunya
• Tatyana GerbachevskayaAfrodita