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.
Director:
Writer:
Leonid Bykov
Maksim Perepelitsa
Konstantin Sorokin
Sablin, Starshina
Aleksandr Borisov
Marco Muha, a friend of Kondrat Perepelitsa, postman
Mykola Yakovchenko
Kondrat Perepelitsa
Tatyana Pelttser
a neighbor of Maksim Perepelitsa
Georgiy Vitsin
Musii, an old man
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Assistant
Boris Arakelov
Grishka, a friend of Maksim Perepelitsa