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”.
Леонид Харитонов
as Ivan Romanovich Brovkin
Сергей Блинников
as Farm Chm. Timofei Kondratyevich Koroleyev
Евгений Шутов
as Appolinari Petrovich Samokhvalov
Татьяна Пельтцер
as Yevdokia Brovkina
Михаил Пуговкин
as Zachar Silich
Валентина Ананьина
as Derevenskaya devushka
Irina Efremova
as
