

94 minutes
12/12/1955
Maxim 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.

Leonid Bykov
as Maksim Perepelitsa

Konstantin Sorokin
as Sablin, Starshina

Aleksandr Borisov
as Marco Muha, a friend of Kondrat Perepelitsa, postman

Mykola Yakovchenko
as Kondrat Perepelitsa

Tatyana Pelttser
as a neighbor of Maksim Perepelitsa

Georgiy Vitsin
as Musii, an old man

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
as Assistant

Boris Arakelov
as Grishka, a friend of Maksim Perepelitsa