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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (Russian: Жизнь и необыча́йные приключе́ния солда́та Ива́на Чо́нкина, Czech: Žvot a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina) is a 1994 comedy-drama film directed by Jiří 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.[1]

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Directed by	Jiří Menzel
Screenplay by	Zdeněk Svěrák
Based on	Books 1 and 2 of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich
Produced by	Eric Abraham Katya Krausova
Starring	Gennady Nazarov Zoya Buryak Vladimir Ilyin
Cinematography	Jaromír Šofr
Edited by	Jiří Brožek
Music by	Jiří Šust
Production companies	Canal+ CNC Domenico Procacci La Sept Portobello Pictures
Distributed by	Channel Four Films (United Kingdom) MKL Distribution (France) Fandango (Italy)
Release dates	1 October 1994 (1994-10-01) (Czech Republic) 9 November 1994 (1994-11-09) (France) 27 October 1995 (1995-10-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time	106 minutes
Countries	Russia Czech Republic United Kingdom France Italy
Languages	Russian Czech

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
• Marián Labuda – Opalikov
• Aleksandr Garin – Svintsov

References

Further reading

• Menzel, Jirí (November 1995). "The art of laughter and survival". Index on Censorship. 24 (6): 119–122. doi:10.1080/03064229508536003. S2CID 145384794.

External links

• Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина (фильм)

«Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина» (чеш. Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina) — кинокомедия чешского режиссёра Иржи Менцеля по мотивам первой части романа Владимира Войновича «Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина». Фильм снят на русском языке, практически все актёры — из России.

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