Soldier Ivan Brovkin (1955)

This exhilarating twopart film Soldier Ivan Brovkin and Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm presented to the country a new national hero kind modest charming and neerdowell That neerdowellness proved Kharitonovs special key to audiences hearts Following Brovkins appearance on the screen Kharitonov had become a star of the national cinema an idol for millions of people His incredible popularity may be compared to that of another national hero the worlds first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin And not surprisingly it was Kharitonov who made a cameo appearance going up the festival stairs and followed with the adoring eyes of the heroines in V Menshovs Oscarwinning melodrama Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears