Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)

Original title

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Directed by

Jiří Menzel

Genre

comedy film, war film, satirical film

Country

Czech Republic, Russia, United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

U

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A simple Russian soldier gets accidentally forgotten by his army and ends up living with a country woman. Soviet bureaucracy and small town life collide in a series of awkward and funny situations during World War Two.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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