CinemaOSMovie · 1961 · 0h 19m

The Boy and the Pigeon

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The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.

Directed byAndrei Konchalovsky, Yevgeni Ostashenko

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 19m
Language
RU
Released
April 1, 1961
Studios
VGIK

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring
Nikolay Burlyaev

Nikolay Burlyaev

the Boy

Vladimir Shurupov

Vladimir Shurupov

pigeon-fancier

Evgeniy Urbanskiy

Evgeniy Urbanskiy

the loader from the store

Creative team
Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky
Yevgeni Ostashenko
Yevgeni Ostashenko
Written by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky

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