Anatoli GRANIK
Анатолий ГРАНИК
Anatoli GRANIK
USSR, 1955, 94mn 
Black and white, fiction
Maksim Perepelitsa
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Максим Перепелица

 

 Maksim Perepelitsa

 Maksim Perepelitsa

 
Directed by : Anatoli GRANIK (Анатолий ГРАНИК)
Writing credits : Ivan STADNYUK (Иван СТАДНЮК)
 
Cast
Leonid BYKOV (Леонид БЫКОВ) ...Maksim Perepelitsa
Nikolay YAKOVTCHENKO (Николай ЯКОВЧЕНКО) ...Kondrat Perepelitsa
Aleksandr BORISOV (Александр БОРИСОВ) ...Kondrat Perepelitsa
Taisya LITVINENKO (Таисия ЛИТВИНЕНКО)
Lyudmila SOSYURA (Людмила СОСЮРА)
 
Cinematography : Dmitry_2 MESKHIEV (Дмитрий_2 МЕСХИЕВ)
Production design : Viktor SAVOSTIN (Виктор САВОСТИН)
Music : Vasili SOLOVIEV- SEDOY (Василий СОЛОВЬЕВ-СЕДОЙ)
Companies : Lenfilm
Spectators : 27.8 millions of spectators
Release Date in Russia : 09/01/1956
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
Maxim Perepelisa, a Ukrainian guy is known in his home village for his readiness to laugh and extraordinary inventiveness, which he skillfully uses to avoid all and any kind of work. When he receives conscription notice from the army, the collective arm command even wants to deprive him of this honored duty, but then gives a guy a chance to mend his ways. First Maxim is trying to avoid the hardships of army service by trickery and only with time realizes his wrong…
 

commentaries
"Первым делом самолеты": 5 лучших фильмов к юбилею Леонида Быкова [A propos de l'acteur Leonid Bykov (1928-1979)], rg.ru, 2023
Les dix meilleurs films soviétiques des années 1950, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010

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