The Chairman is a 1964 Soviet film

Soviet films of 1964

A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1964 .-1964:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

 directed by Aleksei Saltykov

Aleksei Saltykov

Aleksey Aleksandrovich Saltykov is a Soviet - Russian film director and screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR . He is best known for his film The Chairman . Saltikov was born in Moscow...

 and starring Mikhail Ulyanov

Mikhail Ulyanov

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognizable persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Mikhail Alexandrovich...

, Nonna Mordyukova

Nonna Mordyukova

Noyabrina "Nonna" Viktorovna Mordyukova was a Soviet actress and People's Artist of the USSR...

 and Ivan Lapikov

Ivan Lapikov

Ivan Gerasimovich Lapikov – was a Soviet and Russian actor.-Biography:Ivan Gerasimovich Lapikov was born on July 7, 1922 in the village of Gorny Balykley, near Tsaritsyn...

. This film was honored with a Second Prize at All-Union Film Festival

All-Union Film Festival

The All-Union Film Festival was one of the most important film festivals of the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1958 and held regularly from 1964-1988. It was held annually from 1972 onwards, and bi-annually before that...

 in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 (1966).

Plot

After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 ends, soldier Yegor Trubnikov comes back to his native village to restore the ruined collective farm facilities. Rebuilding the kolkhoz

Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz , plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms . The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство...

 is as hard for him as fighting the war. Becoming chairman, he charges himself with the burden of responsibility not only for the collective farm business, but also for the destiny

Destiny

Destiny or fate refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual...

 of the people who are so close to him.

Cast

• Mikhail Ulyanov
  Mikhail Ulyanov
  Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognizable persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Mikhail Alexandrovich...
  
   as Yegor Trubnikov
• Ivan Lapikov
  Ivan Lapikov
  Ivan Gerasimovich Lapikov – was a Soviet and Russian actor.-Biography:Ivan Gerasimovich Lapikov was born on July 7, 1922 in the village of Gorny Balykley, near Tsaritsyn...
  
   as Semyon Trubnikov
• Nonna Mordyukova
  Nonna Mordyukova
  Noyabrina "Nonna" Viktorovna Mordyukova was a Soviet actress and People's Artist of the USSR...
  
   as Donya Trubnikova
• Vyacheslav Nevinnyy as Pavel Markushev
• Valentina Vladimirova as Polina Korshikova
• Kira Golovko as Nadya
• Arkadi Trusov as Ignat Zakharovich
• Vladimir Gulyayev as Ramenkov - District Party Instructor
• Antonina Bogdanova as Praskovya
• Aleksandr Kashperov as Shiryaev - Blacksmith
• Aleksei Krychenkov as Alyoshka Trubnikov
• Larisa Blinova as Liza
• Nikolai Parfyonov as Klyagin - First Secretary of the District Party Committee
• Aleksandr Galchenkov as Boris
• Vladimir Etush
  Vladimir Etush
  Vladimir Abramovich Etush is a Soviet film and television actor and a People's Artist of the USSR , an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Filmography :* The Gadfly...
  
   as Colonel Kaloye
• Sergei Kurilov as Kochetkov
• Sergei Blinnikov as Serdyukov
• Maya Blinova
• Vera Burlakova
• Antonina Dmitriyeva as Trubnikov's 'City' Wife
• Vladimir Ferapontov
• Sergei Golovanov as Newspaper Correspondent
• Aleksandr Kashperov
• Mikhail Kokshenov as Misha
• A. Kolesova
• Yelizaveta Kuzyurina as Motya Postnikova
• Aleksandr Lebedev
• V. Lebedev
• Vladimir Marenkov
• Varvara Popova as Samokhina
• Vasili Popov
• Fyodor Seleznyov
• Vitali Solomin as Valyozhin - Physician
• Yuri Solovyov
• A. Stroyev
• P. Timchenko

External links

• The Chairman. Kino-teatr.ru