Overview
Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
Cast
- Leonid Bykov as Maksim Perepelitsa
- Konstantin Sorokin as Sablin, Starshina
- Aleksandr Borisov as Marco Muha, a friend of Kondrat Perepelitsa, postman
- Mykola Yakovchenko as Kondrat Perepelitsa
- Tatyana Pelttser as a neighbor of Maksim Perepelitsa
- Georgiy Vitsin as Musii, an old man
- Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Assistant
- Boris Arakelov as Grishka, a friend of Maksim Perepelitsa
- Albert Yanson as Timokha
- Raisa Raisova-Grebennikova as Ganna Kozak