The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Name: The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1994
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilin, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Aleksei Zharkov

Directed by Jiří Menzel

Produced by Domenico Procacci, Fandango

1994106 min6.5 / 10

A warmly comic, character-driven story set in wartime Ukraine that finds humor and human connection in the absurdity of bureaucratic neglect and small-town romance.

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.

Clusters

Whimsical Reinvention Through Romance Period Setting By Decade

Genres

Comedy Drama

Keywords

Based On Novel Or Book 1940s

Questions people ask

Is The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 77% of films.
Is The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.
Is The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.
Does The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 62% of films.
Is The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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