Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin [SEP] director
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (, ) is a 1994 comedy drama film directed by Jiří Menzel. The film entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal. It is based on the novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin" by Vladimir Voinovich and the scenario by Zdeněk Svěrák. It is a coproduction between Russia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (, "Zhizn i neobïchaynïe priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina") is a 1969–2007 novel by Soviet dissident writer Vladimir Voinovich. Voinovich wrote two sequels to the novel Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (, "Pretendent na prestol: Novye priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina"), 1979, and A Displaced Person (, "Peremyeshyonnoye litso"), 2007; together, the trilogy constitutes Voinovich's "