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”.

Released Sept. 8, 1955 93 min None+

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Keywords: mdblist.belongs-to-collection, imdb.army, imdb.village, imdb.girl, imdb.failure, mdblist.first-in-collection

Production Companies: Gorky Film Studios

Country: Soviet Union
Production Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian