Soldier Ivan Brovkin

The story

This exhilarating two-part film (“Soldier Ivan Brovkin” and “Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm”) presented to the country a new national hero – kind, modest, charming and… ne’er-do-well. That “ne’er-do-well-ness” proved “Kharitonov’s special key to audiences’ hearts”. Following Brovkin’s appearance on the screen, Kharitonov had become a star of the national cinema, an idol for millions of people. His incredible popularity may be compared to that of another national hero – the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. And not surprisingly, it was Kharitonov who made a cameo appearance going up the festival stairs and followed with the adoring eyes of the heroines in V. Menshov’s Oscar-winning melodrama “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”.

In the same saga

Ivan Brovkin Collection

In release order

This film

Soldier Ivan Brovkin

1955

Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm

1959

Cast

L Leonid KharitonovIvan Romanovich Brovkin S Sergei BlinnikovFarm Chm. Timofei Kondratyevich Koroleyev Y Yevgeni ShutovAppolinari Petrovich Samokhvalov T Tatyana PelttserYevdokia Brovkina M Mikhail PugovkinZachar Silich V Valentina AnaninaDerevenskaya devushka I Irina Efremova