Chief of Chukotka
| Chief of Chukotka | |
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| Russian: Начальник Чукотки | |
| Directed by | Vitaly Melnikov |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | M. Trukhina |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Eduard Rozovsky |
| Edited by | Zinaida Sheineman |
| Music by | Nadezhda Simonyan |
Production company | |
Release date | 1966 |
Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Chief of Chukotka (Russian: Начальник Чукотки, romanized: Nachalnik Chukotki) is a 1966 Soviet comedy film directed by Vitaly Melnikov.[1][2][3]
Plot
1922. Commissar Alexey Mikhailovich Glazkov, who received a mandate from the Soviet government to manage the affairs of Chukotka, and the very young clerk Alyosha Bychkov accompanying him in a dog sled driven by a musher, travel from Ascension Bay to the village Uigunan in Chukotka. On the way, Glazkov dies of typhus, and Alyosha and the musher bury him, covered with snow. However, despite the death of Glazkov, the musher refuses to turn the dogs in the opposite direction and delivers Alyosha to Uygunan, where he is met by the former tsarist customs officer Khramov. Having sent Alyosha to rest after his arrival, the cunning Khramov, having secretly examined the things brought by Alyosha, finds Glazkov's mandate among them and believes that Alyosha is Glazkov.[4]
Cast
- Mikhail Kononov as Bychkov
- Alexey Gribov as Timofey Ivanovich Khramov
- Gennadiy Danzanov as Wukwutagin
- Nikolay Volkov Sr. as Mr. Stenson
- Pavel Vinnik as foreigner in a hat
- Stepan Krylov as Chekmaryov
- Tito Romalio as waiter on the ship
- Iosif Konopatsky as Glazkov
- Aleksey Kozhevnikov as commissioner
- Konstantin Adashevsky as merchant Bryukhanov
- Pavel Pankov as Colonel Petukhov
- Anatoly Korolkevich as war minister
- Anatoli Abramov as order bearer
- Aleksandr Zakharov as foreign agent[5]
- Aleksei Petrenko as robber (uncredited)