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, no..
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.
01 Oct 1994
Russian, Czech
Jirí Menzel
Zdenek Sverák (screenplay), Vladimir Vojnovich (novel)
Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilin, Valeriy Zolotukhin
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.
1 win & 8 nominations.