Wild Pigeon (film)

Plot

The film takes place in the autumn of 1946, in a small provincial town in western Kazakhstan. A local teenager Ivan Naydenov (Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko) nicknamed as "The Gray", is a passionate pigeon enthusiast who recklessly risking his life manages to catch a white dove which has unexpectedly appeared in the city. Other pigeon hobbyists of the city find out of The Gray's spoil and the dove hunting begins. Soon the thieves kidnap the pigeon from The Gray's pen at night. The Gray begins to search for and find the dove from the local "pigeon authority" – Kolya the Gypsy (Vladimir Steklov). The Gray cunningly recaptures his prey and realizing that the dove is still doomed releases it to freedom. All the events of the film unfold against the backdrop of a meager post-war life of the inhabitants of the town - a place of exile and evacuation.

Cast

Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko as Ivan Naydenov "Gray"

Aleksandr Bashirov as "Freak"

Andrei Bitov as Pyotr Petrovich Startsev "Pepe" pianist, composer, ex-husband of Ksenia Nikolaevna

Arkady Vysotsky as brother of "Duffer"

Ilya Ivanov as Investigator Benjamin Jousse

Tatiana Ignatova as spectator in the theater under the open sky

Liubomiras Laucevičius as father of Ivan Naydenov

Boris Ryakhovskiy as Rakov

Ludmila Savelyeva as Xenia Nikolaevna Startseva, actress

Anatoly Slivnik as Colonel Pylypenko

Vladimir Steklov as Kolya's "Gypsy"

Bapov Sultan as Murat, friend of Ivan Naydenova, a student of Pyotr Petrovich

Vyacheslav Kuchanov as "Tushkan"

Mikhail Levchenko (II) as "Joker"

Sergey Mildenberger as second brother of "Duffer"

Boris Olehnovich as Martyn

Andrey Filozov as Savitsky

German Schorr as Misha Nelyubov