Soldier Ivan Brovkin (1955)

Original title: Солдат Иван Бровкин
Release date: Sept. 8, 1955
Status: Released
Genres: Adventure, Comedy
Runtime: 1h 33min
Producers: Gorky Film Studios

Name: Soldier Ivan Brovkin
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Released: 1955-09-08
Cast: Leonid Kharitonov, Sergei Blinnikov, Yevgeni Shutov, Tatyana Pelttser

Directed by Ivan Lukinsky.
Starring Leonid Kharitonov, Sergei Blinnikov, Yevgeni Shutov and Tatyana Pelttser.

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”.