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title: 'Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jiří Menzel'
released: '1994-09-01'
runtime_minutes: 106
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Czech Republic'
  - 'Russia'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/life-and-extraordinary-adventures-of-private-ivan-chonkin-1994'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110348/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)

1994 · 106 min · Comedy, War · Czech Republic, Russia, United Kingdom, France, Italy

Original title: Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина

## Synopsis

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin is a 1994 war comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel, based on the first two books of Vladimir Voinovich's novel trilogy of the same name. An international co-production between Russia, Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, it entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jiří Menzel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-menzel)
- **Screenplay:** [Zdeněk Svěrák](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-sverak)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jiří Šust](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-sust)
- **Producer:** [Domenico Procacci](https://cinepixo.com/people/domenico-procacci), [Eric Abraham](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-abraham)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jaromír Šofr](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaromir-sofr)
- **Editor:** [Jiří Brožek](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-brozek)

## Cast

- [Tatyana Kravchenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatyana-kravchenko)
- [Aleksei Zharkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksei-zharkov)
- [Olga Anokhina](https://cinepixo.com/people/olga-anokhina)
- [Mikhail Vaskov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-vaskov)
- [Galina Petrova](https://cinepixo.com/people/galina-petrova)
- [Sergey Gabrielyan](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergey-gabrielyan)
- [Valeri Zolotukhin](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeri-zolotukhin)
- [Zoya Buryak](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoya-buryak)
- [Yevgeny Voskresensky](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeny-voskresensky)
- [Sergei Garmash](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-garmash)
- [Fyodor Dunayevsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/fyodor-dunayevsky)
- [Zinovy Gerdt](https://cinepixo.com/people/zinovy-gerdt)
- [Marián Labuda](https://cinepixo.com/people/marian-labuda)
- [Gennady Nazarov](https://cinepixo.com/people/gennady-nazarov) as Ivan Chonkin
- [Yuriy Dubrovin](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuriy-dubrovin)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/life-and-extraordinary-adventures-of-private-ivan-chonkin-1994
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