Vitali MELNIKOV
Виталий МЕЛЬНИКОВ
Vitali MELNIKOV
USSR, 1966, 91mn 
fiction
Nachalnik Chukotki
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Начальник Чукотки

 

 The Chief of Chukotka

 Chef de la Tchoukotka

 
Directed by : Vitali MELNIKOV (Виталий МЕЛЬНИКОВ)
 
Cast
Mikhail KONONOV (Михаил КОНОНОВ)
Aleksey GRIBOV (Алексей ГРИБОВ)
Nikolay VOLKOV (Николай ВОЛКОВ)
Pavel VINNIK (Павел ВИННИК)
Stepan KRYLOV (Степан КРЫЛОВ)
 
Production design : Marsen GAUKHMAN-SVERDLOV (Марксен ГАУХМАН-СВЕРДЛОВ)
Companies : Lenfilm
Spectators : 15,7 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk
Plot synopsis
1922. Commissar Glazkov is send to Chukotka to establish Soviet power. On his way to Uigunan, Glazkov dies and the only one who gets to the destination point is his secretary Alyosha. By pure chance this young man becomes the chief of Chukotka.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 
commentaries
Героическая комедия и её герои [La comédie héroïque et ses héros], Oleg KOVALOV, cinematheque.ru, 2010
 
Reviews from Russian viewers
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2022
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