Soldier Ivan Brovkin

(1955)

★ 6 IMDb · 9 votes

Genres: Adventure, Comedy

Year: 1955

Runtime: 87 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Иван Лукинский

Cast: Леонид Харитонов, Сергей Блинников, Евгений Шутов, Татьяна Пельтцер, Михаил Пуговкин, Валентина Ананьина, Ирина Ефремова

Plot

This exhilarating two-part film (“Soldier Ivan Brovkin” and “Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm”) presented to the country a new national hero – kind, modest, charming and… ne’er-do-well. That “ne’er-do-well-ness” proved “Kharitonov’s special key to audiences’ hearts”. Following Brovkin’s appearance on the screen, Kharitonov had become a star of the national cinema, an idol for millions of people. His incredible popularity may be compared to that of another national hero – the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. And not surprisingly, it was Kharitonov who made a cameo appearance going up the festival stairs and followed with the adoring eyes of the heroines in V. Menshov’s Oscar-winning melodrama “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”.