There Is Such a Lad
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Genre Comedy, Romance Duration Music director Pavel Chekalov | 7.6/10 IMDb Writer Vasiliy Shukshin Initial release 1964 Running time 1h 41m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Pashka), (Reporter), Lidiya Aleksandrova (Nastya), Rodion Nahapetov (Engineer), Anastasiya Zuyeva (Marfa), Yuriy Grigorev Similar movies Vasily Shukshin directed There Is Such a Guy and The Red Snowball Tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There Is Such a Lad (Russian: Живёт такой парень, Zhivyot takoy paren) is a 1964 Soviet comedy film, directed by Vasily Shukshin. The movie is based on Vasily Shukshin's collection of short stories.
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Plot
The movie tells the story of an Altai truck driver Pashka Kolokolnikov (played by Leonid Kuravlyov) - a kind, funny, and outgoing person, who loves life. He is a simpleton with a variety of gross provincial expressions and remarks, who likes to make fun of people and play practical jokes. But it turns out that he can also be a hero, when he prevents the explosion of a gasoline truck by risking his life.
Awards
The film won the Lion of Saint Marco prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1964 for Best Children's Film and received an award at the All-Union Film Festival (Leningrad, 1964) for Best Comedy Film ("For the cheerfulness, lyricism and originality").
References
There Is Such a Lad WikipediaThere Is Such a Lad IMDbThere Is Such a Lad themoviedb.org