In the USSR, many ideological paintings were shot, totheir category can be attributed, and the film Vitaly Melnikova "Head of Chukotka." Actor Mikhail Kononov plays in the comedy of the main protagonist of the Red Army, Alexei Bychkov, who arrived in Chukotka as a commissioner. The imperialist official Timofey Khramov is playing the role of antagonist. What conflict will arise between the characters? And what adventures are waiting for Bychkov before he establishes the legitimate Soviet power in Chukotka?
Films glorifying the Communist Party andideologically savvy Red Army men, in the USSR were not uncommon. The adherents of imperialism and the white movement were mercilessly ridiculed or exposed by low people, while the adherents of the party, on the contrary, were highly moral heroes. The situation is similar in the film “Chief of Chukotka”.
The picture was put by director Vitaly Melnikov in1966 Melnikov is also the director of the popular Soviet comedy “The Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruyev” and the film adaptation of the work of N. Gogol “The Marriage”.
Screenplay for the film "Chief of Chukotka" wroteVladimir Valutsky. Subsequently, he also became the author of a screenplay for the Soviet hit "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson." Behind the camera was Edward Rozovsky, who shot the Amphibian Man and the White Sun of the Desert.
The protagonist of the film is the revolutionary clerkCommittee Alexey Bychkov. He goes to Chukotka for his business, and the company is made up by Commissioner Alexei Glazkov, who is ordered to establish Soviet power in the said region. However, on the way Glazkov dies from typhoid fever. Then Alexey Bychkov, considering it his duty to continue the work of a like-minded person, takes his mandate and himself appoints himself governor of Chukotka.
The uprising is successful.Bychkov has to flee from Chukotka. But he also has to take with him the entire treasury of the region so that it is not in vain. Thus, the main character is in Alaska with a million in his hands.
While Bychkov is looking for a way to return from the USA to the USSR,he is found in the States by the former Tsarist customs officer of the Temples, who previously was in charge of business in Chukotka. Timofey Khramov is trying to take money from Bychkov, but nothing comes of it. In the final, the former chief of Chukotka and the faithful servant of the revolution returns to his native Soviet Union, and the coveted million enters the state’s treasury.
Mikhail Kononov began acting in films in 1963.At first, he was trusted only in supporting roles, but the picture “The Head of Chukotka” changed everything. The actor first got the lead role. And she succeeded so well that later Kononov became a sought-after and recognizable artist.
Since the 80s Kononov appeared in the movie less and less. The last role of the artist was associated with the television series Gleb Panfilov "In the first circle" (screen version of the same work by A. Solzhenitsyn).
When arrived in the region as a managerAlexey Bychkov, the Temples in every way prevented the establishment of new orders. Bychkov even had to arrest the tsarist official, but then he set him free and took on as a consultant for economic matters.
When Bychkov was forced to flee, the Temples went after him to pick up part of the Chukchi treasury. But Bychkov circled Khramova around his finger and returned to the USSR with the full amount of money.
Alexei Gribov can also be seen in the films "The Crash of the Empire", "Love of Spring" and "Zigzag of Luck."
Известный советский актёр Николай Волков («Алые Sails ") also honored with his presence the film" The Head of Chukotka. " Actors N. Volkov and M. Ivanov played by the Americans - the characters of the opposing side. In addition, in the frame you can see Joseph Konopatsky, Oscar Lind and Arkady Trusov.
