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Maksim Perepelitsa

Maksim Perepelitsa

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Maksim Perepelitsa

1955

1h 34m

6.9(47 votes)

Comedy

Overview

Maksim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.

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Production Companies

Lenfilm

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Leonid Bykov

Leonid Bykov

Maksim Perepelitsa

Konstantin Sorokin

Konstantin Sorokin

Sablin, Starshina

Aleksandr Borisov

Aleksandr Borisov

Marco Muha, a friend of Kondrat Perepelitsa, postman

Mykola Yakovchenko

Mykola Yakovchenko

Kondrat Perepelitsa

Tatyana Pelttser

Tatyana Pelttser

a neighbor of Maksim Perepelitsa

Georgiy Vitsin

Georgiy Vitsin

Musii, an old man

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Assistant

Boris Arakelov

Boris Arakelov

Grishka, a friend of Maksim Perepelitsa

Albert Yanson

Timokha

Raisa Raisova-Grebennikova

Ganna Kozak

Creative team

Directed by: Anatoliy Granik
Written by: Ivan Stadnyuk

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