Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Based On the book by Vladimir Voinovich

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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Release date:

September 1, 1994

Director:

Jiří Menzel

Cast:

Gennady Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilyin, Aleksei Zharkov, Valeri Zolotukhin

Genre:

War, Comedy, Satirical

Country:

Italy, United Kingdom, Russia, Czech Republic

Language:

Russian

Year page:

1994 in adaptations