Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (, ) is a 1994 Russian Czech British French Italian World War II comedy drama movie directed by Jiří Menzel and was based on the 1969 and 1979 novel of the same name by Vladimir Voinovich. It stars Gennady Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilyin, Aleksei Zharkov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Zinovy Gerdt, Sergei Garmash, Marián Labuda.