Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Directed by	Jiří Menzel
Screenplay by	Zdeněk Svěrák
Based on	Books 1 and 2 of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich
Produced by	Eric Abraham Katya Krausova
Starring	Gennady Nazarov Zoya Buryak Vladimir Ilyin
Cinematography	Jaromír Šofr
Edited by	Jiří Brožek
Music by	Jiří Šust
Production companies	Canal+ CNC Domenico Procacci La Sept Portobello Pictures
Distributed by	Channel Four Films (United Kingdom) MKL Distribution (France) Fandango (Italy)
Release dates	1 October 1994 (1994-10-01) (Czech Republic) 9 November 1994 (1994-11-09) (France) 27 October 1995 (1995-10-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time	106 minutes
Countries	Russia Czech Republic United Kingdom France Italy
Languages	Russian Czech

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (Russian: Жизнь и необыча́йные приключе́ния солда́та Ива́на Чо́нкина, Czech: Žvot a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina) 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.^[1]