Bumbarash is a 1971 Soviet adventure film

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

, a musical comedy in two series loosely based on some early works and the novel Bumbarash by Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Gaidar

Arkady Petrovich Golikov Gaidar was born in the town of Lgov in Imperial Russia, now in Kursk Oblast, Russia, to a family of teachers. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged...

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Directed by Abram Naroditsky and Nikolai Rasheyev. Screenplay by Yevgeni Mitko.

Songs lyrics by Yuliy Kim

Yuliy Kim

Yuliy Chersanovich Kim is one of Russia's foremost bards and playwrights. His most famous works, encompassing everything from mild humor to biting political satire, include songs for movies such as Bumbarash, The Twelve Chairs, and An Ordinary Miracle, as well as the songs "The Brave Captain,"...

 (credited as Yu. Mikhaylov).

Film produced by Dovzhenko Film Studio and Gosteleradio.

Vladimir Mashkov

Vladimir Mashkov

Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov is a Russian actor best known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines. Mashkov has also worked as a film director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film "Papa".-Theatre work:...

 directed a theater play Passions for Bumbarash.

Plot summary

It is a period of Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

. Former Imperial Russian Army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

 Pvt

Private (rank)

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 Bumbarash was a prisoner of war

Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...

 to Austria, but now is returning to his home village, where all, including his beloved girlfriend, believe he is dead.

The rule in the village is periodically changing between White

White movement

The White movement and its military arm the White Army - known as the White Guard or the Whites - was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces.The movement comprised one of the politico-military Russian forces who fought...

, Bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 Red and then, the "bandits"

Warlord

A warlord is a person with power who has both military and civil control over a subnational area due to armed forces loyal to the warlord and not to a central authority. The term can also mean one who espouses the ideal that war is necessary, and has the means and authority to engage in war...

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Bumbarash is trying to survive in this chaos and to return to his love.

Cast

• Valeri Zolotukhin
  Valeri Zolotukhin
  Valeri Sergeevich Zolotukhin is a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor, People's Artist of Russia.Best known as Bumbarash from the 1971 film with the same name.Featured in Night Watch and Day Watch .-Filmography:...
  
   as Bumbarash
• Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Sofia Nikolayevna
• Yuri Smirnov as Gavrila
• Lev Durov
  Lev Durov
  Lev Konstantinovich Durov is a Soviet/Russian theatre and films actor since 1955, People's Artist of USSR.-Filmography:actor* I Step Through Moscow * All The King's Men - Sugar Boy* Stariki-razboyniki - driver...
  
   as the Miller
• Roman Tkachuk
  Roman Tkachuk
  Roman Denisovich Tkachuk was a Soviet theatre and film actor.-Biography:He was born on August 31, 1932 in Sverdlovsk , USSR.He graduated from an institute for film directors named after Aleksandr Ostrovsky in Tashkent in 1955....
  
   as Commissar Zaplatin
• Natalya Dmitriyeva
• Aleksandr Khochinsky as Levka Demchenko
• Aleksandra Belina as Yashka
• Leonid Bakshtayev as Chubatov
• Nikolai Dupak as Sovkov
• Margarita Krinitsyna
• Lev Perfilov
• Yuri Sherstnyov
• Aleksandr Filippenko
  Aleksandr Filippenko
  Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko is a famous Soviet and Russian actor. Filippenko was honored with People's Artist of Russia in 2000.-Biography:...
  
  (cameo appearance)