The Life And Extraordinary Times Of Private Ivan Chonkin

• 1994
• UK/Czech/France
• 1h 46min
• 15

• Directed by: Jiri Menzel
• Cast: Gennadij Nazarov, Zoja Burjak, Vladimir Ilyn.

Supposedly guarding a crashed plane near a sleepy Russian village during WW2, a happy-go-lucky soldier falls in love with the female postal clerk and romps about on her farm. An award-winner at the 1994 Venice Film Festival, Menzel's comic satire on Soviet bureaucracy has a warm and gentle tone, but hints at darker depths.