The Boy and the Pigeon (1961)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 2.092 |
Directed By
Andrei Konchalovsky
Evgeny Ostashenko
Crew
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Konchalovsky
Mikhail Kozhin
Semen Peterson
Evgeny Ostashenko
TOP CAST
Nikolay Burlyaev
the Boy
Vladimir Shurupov
pigeon-fancier
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
the loader from the store
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