''Bumbarash'' (russian: Бумбараш, Bumbarash) is a 1971

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, a

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in two episodes loosely based on some early works and the novel ''Bumbarash'' by

Arkady Gaidar Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (russian: link=no, Арка́дий Петро́вич Гайда́р, born Golikov, russian: link=no, Го́ликов; – 26 October 1941) was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet chil ...

Plot

During the

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, former

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Bumbarash, formerly a

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and "bandits". Bumbarash tries to survive in this chaos and to return to his love.

Cast

Valeri Zolotukhin Valeri Sergeevich Zolotukhin (russian: link=no, Валерий Сергеевич Золотухин, 21 June 1941 – 30 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian stage and cinema actor who performed at the Taganka Theatre which he also headed between ...

as Bumbarash *

Yekaterina Vasilyeva Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vasilyeva (russian: Екатерина Серге́евна Васильева; born 15 August 1945 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She performed in more than ninety films since 1967. Vasilyeva ...

as Sofia Nikolayevna * Yuri Smirnov as Gavrila *

Lev Durov Lev Konstantinovich Durov ( rus, Лев Константинович Дуров, p=ˈlʲef kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ ˈdurəf; 23 December 1931 – 20 August 2015) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor who appeared in more than 200 ...

as the Miller *

Roman Tkachuk Roman Denisovich Tkachuk (russian: Роман Денисович Ткачук; August 31, 1932 — January 10, 1994) was a Soviet theatre and film actor. Biography He was born on August 31, 1932 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), USSR. He gradu ...

as Commissar Zaplatin * Natalya Dmitriyeva as Varvara *

Aleksandr Khochinsky Alexander Yuryevich Khochinsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Хочи́нский; February 29, 1944, Leningrad — April 11, 1998, St. Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, bard. Honored Artist of the RSF ...

as Lyovka Demchenko *

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as Yashka * Leonid Bakshtayev as Chubatov *

Nikolay Dupak Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak (russian: Николай Лукьянович Дупак; born 5 October 1921) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, the head of theaters. Front-line soldier, invalid of the World War II. Hon ...

as Sovkov *

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as Seraphima * Lev Perfilov as Melaniy, Bumbarash's brother * Yuri Sherstnyov as episode *

Aleksandr Filippenko Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko (russian: links=no, Александр Георгиевич Филиппенко; born September 2, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of Russia (2000). Biography He was born in Moscow. His pare ...

(cameo appearance)

References

External links

* 1971 films 1970s adventure comedy films 1970s historical adventure films 1970s musical comedy films Soviet historical adventure films Soviet musical comedy films 1970s Russian-language films Russian Civil War films Dovzhenko Film Studios films 1970s historical comedy films Soviet historical musical films 1971 comedy films {{adventure-film-stub