Children of Don Quixote
| Дети Дон Кихота | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Yevgeni Karelov |
| Produced by | Gleb Kuznetsov |
| Written by | Nina Fomina |
| Starring |
Anatoly Papanov Vera Orlova |
| Music by | Georgy Firtich |
| Cinematography | Emil Gulidov |
| Edited by | Vsevolod Massino |
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Release dates |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country |
 Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Children of Don Quixote (Russian: Дети Дон Kихота) is a 1965 Soviet film.
Plot
Children of Don Quixote - the story of an ordinary family at first glance. Large family physicians, three boys. The first - a young artist (Victor - Vladimir Korenev), second (Dima - Lev Prygunov) is growing and looking for love, for a third (Jura - Belyaninov) life - a dark cinema hall with his friend, a classmate instead of school. Middle decides to marry, Jr. fled to Africa for the liberation of the oppressed blacks, senior decides that inept and seeking a way out of a creative crisis.
The father Pyotr Bondarenko (Anatoly Papanov) - obstetrician in the hospital. His principle of life - if you can do something for the people then do it without expecting reward, not hearing spiteful critics and scoffers. Only at the end of the film the viewer realizes that all his sons were adopted. They are - children of former patients Bondarenko, who abandoned the child, and he was unable to convince them not to make this mistake, and therefore took responsibility for the fate of the children. At the final, doctor adopts a fourth boy for the same reason.
Cast
- Anatoly Papanov - Pyotr Bondarenko, an obstetrician-gynecologist[1]
- Vera Orlova - Vera Bondarenko, plastic surgeon
- Vladimir Korenev - Viktor Bondarenko, the eldest son, painter
- Lev Prygunov - Dima Bondarenko, the middle son, a college student
- Andrey Belyaninov - Yuri Bondarenko (some episodes voiced by Maria Vinogradova), the youngest son, a pupil[2]
- Natalya Fateyeva - Marina Nikolaevna, director of the theater, Victor's secret love
- Nikolai Parfenov - Athanasius Petrovich, chief accountant cinema
- Natalya Sedykh - Motya, freckled girl, the Dima's bride
- Natalya Zorina - Valya, a neighbor and Dima's classmate
- Valentine Berezutskaya - Maria Ivanovna, nurse
- Sasha Blagoveschensky - Andrey, Yuri Bondarenko friend
- Zoya Vasilkova - Zoya Nikolaevna, Valya's and Andrey's mother (credited as Z. Chekulaeva)
- Maria Kremneva - nurse, fallen asleep on duty
- Valentina Ananina - puerpera
- German Kachin - Sazonov, the patient
- Irina Murzaeva - old woman with a dog Whirlwind
- Elvira Lutsenko - fat milf
- Galina Volchek