Soldier Ivan Brovkin

Ivan Brovkin is a lad from a village. The people around him take him for a good for nothing. Zakhar Silyich, the chairman of the collective farm, tries to keep his daughter away from him. The daughter is called Lyubasha. The chairman still wants to give the young man a chance. He tries to make a driver out of him. Ivan sinks the farm truck in a river. Just as it is about to turn serious, his mother intervenes. Around the same time his call up papers arrive. Ivan goes into the army. Becoming a soldier does not come easily to him either. In time friendship and mutual help do their work. With attention from his commanders he pulls himself together. Lyuba waits for him back in the village. She turns down the attentions of an accountant. The film reached a wide audience when it was released. Leonid Kharitonov and Tatyana Pelttser appear in the ninety three minute film, a Soviet production Ivan Lukinsky finished in 1955.