The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Directed by Jiří Menzel

With Gennadiy Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilin, Valeriy Zolotukhin and Aleksei Zharkov

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.