Soldier Ivan Brovkin (1955)
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”.
Director:
Ivan Lukinsky
Writer:
Giorgi Mdivani
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Leonid Kharitonov as Ivan Romanovich Brovkin |
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Sergei Blinnikov as Farm Chm. Timofei Kondratyevich Koroleyev |
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Yevgeni Shutov as Appolinari Petrovich Samokhvalov |
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Tatyana Pelttser as Yevdokia Brovkina |
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Mikhail Pugovkin as Zachar Silich |
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Valentina Ananina as Derevenskaya devushka |
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Irina Efremova as |
| Directing | Ivan Lukinsky | Director |
| Sound | Anatoliy Lepin | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Giorgi Mdivani | Screenplay |
| Camera | Valeriy Ginzburg | Director of Photography |
| Art | Lyudmila Blatova | Production Design |
| Directing | B. Kanevskiy | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ilya Gurin | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Valentin Khlobynin | Sound Director |
| Writing | Aleksey Fatyanov | Lyricist |
| Editing | Lidiya Zhuchkova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Zakharova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | V. Grazhdankin | Makeup & Hair |
| Directing | V. Rozhkova | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | S. Egorov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V. Grishin | Assistant Camera |
| Crew | I. Fedyuninskiy | Military Consultant |
| Crew | I. Klezovich | Military Consultant |
| Crew | A. Danilov | Military Consultant |
| Sound | Grigoriy Gamburg | Conductor |
| Camera | Vitali Grishin | Assistant Camera |
| Production | Vladimir Berenstein | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Lev Yakovlev | Songs |