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”.

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Cast

Leonid Kharitonov

Ivan Romanovich Brovkin

Sergei Blinnikov

Farm Chm. Timofei Kondratyevich Koroleyev

Yevgeni Shutov

Appolinari Petrovich Samokhvalov

Tatyana Pelttser

Yevdokia Brovkina

Mikhail Pugovkin

Zachar Silich

Valentina Ananina

Derevenskaya devushka

Irina Efremova