Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin(Movie, 1994)

Name: Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Genre: Comedy, Romance / Love, War
Released: 1994
Duration: T01:46:00
Rating: 3.5

Original title: "Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina" (Czech/CS)

1h 46min | Genres: Comedy, Romance / Love, War

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

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 war comedy 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. ()

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About 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.

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Production countries: Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom (UK), Italy, Russia

Based on: "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Canal Plus, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Fandango, MK2 Production, Channel Four Films, La Sept Cinéma, Portobello Pictures, Three T Productions, Domenico Procacci

Original language: Czech (CS)

Spoken languages: Czech (CS), Russian (RU)

Translated into 8 languages: Czech (CS), English (EN), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/11/1993 (World premiere: 10/02/1994)

Cast: Gennady Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilyin, Aleksei Zharkov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Zinovy Gerdt, Sergei Garmash, Marián Labuda, Henryk Bista, Sergey Batalov, Yuriy Dubrovin (actor), Maria Vinogradova, Tatyana Kravchenko, Galina Petrova, Aleksandr Ilyin, Olga Anokhina, Tatyana Agafonova, Yevgeny Voskresensky, Valery Nikolaev, Mikhail Vaskov

Director: Jiří Menzel

Producer: Eric Abraham, Domenico Procacci

Screenwriter: Zdeněk Svěrák

Film Editor: Jiří Brožek

Director of Photography: Jaromír Šofr

Composer: Jiří Šust

Production Designer: Milan Býček

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина"

"伊凡的冒险生活"

"Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina"

"Iván Csonkin közkatona élete és különleges kalandjai"

"Soldato molto semplice Ivan Chonkin"

"Солдат Иван Чонкин"

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