Bumbarash

Bumbarash
Directed by	Abram Naroditsky Nikolai Rasheyev
Written by	Yevgeni Mitko Arkady Gaidar (novel) Yuliy Kim (lyrics)
Produced by	Vladimir Knyazev
Starring	Valeri Zolotukhin Yekaterina Vasilyeva Yuri Smirnov Lev Durov Roman Tkachuk
Cinematography	Vitaly Zimovets Boris Myasnikov
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Production company	Dovzhenko Film Studio
Release date	1971 (1971)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Bumbarash (Russian: Бумбараш, romanized: Bumbarash) is a 1971 Soviet adventure film, a musical comedy in two episodes loosely based on some early works and the novel Bumbarash by Arkady Gaidar.

Plot

During the Russian Civil War, former Imperial Russian Army Private Bumbarash, formerly a prisoner of war in Austria, is returning to his home village, where all, including his beloved girlfriend, believe he is dead. Control of the village periodically changes between the Whites, Reds and "bandits". Bumbarash tries to survive in this chaos and to return to his love.

Cast

• Valeri Zolotukhin as Bumbarash
• Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Sofia Nikolayevna
• Yuri Smirnov as Gavrila
• Lev Durov as the Miller
• Roman Tkachuk as Commissar Zaplatin
• Natalya Dmitriyeva as Varvara
• Aleksandr Khochinsky as Lyovka Demchenko
• Aleksandra Belina as Yashka
• Leonid Bakshtayev as Chubatov
• Nikolay Dupak as Sovkov
• Margarita Krinitsyna as Seraphima
• Lev Perfilov as Melaniy, Bumbarash's brother
• Yuri Sherstnyov as episode
• Aleksandr Filippenko (cameo appearance)
• Lev Okrent (cameo appearance as Lyon)
• Osip Naiduk as bandit

External links

• Bumbarash at IMDb