The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin Poster

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Not Rated Comedy Drama

Starring: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilin, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Aleksei Zharkov

Writer: Vladimir Vojnovich, Zdeněk Svěrák, Jan Gogola

Release Date:
October 20, 1994
Ratings:
6.4 / 10
Director:
Jiří Menzel
Companies:
Domenico Procacci

Overview

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.