The Boy and the Pigeon

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 1, 1961

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Cast

Nikolay Burlyaev,Vladimir Shurupov,Evgeniy Urbanskiy

Director

Andrei Konchalovsky,Yevgeni Ostashenko

Writer

Andrei Konchalovsky

Cinematography

Mikhail Kozhin

Music

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0055126