

The Boy and the Pigeon
1961-04-01 · 19 min · ★ 5.7
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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- Directors
- Andrei Konchalovsky, Yevgeni Ostashenko
- Production companies
- VGIK
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
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Nikolay Burlyaevthe Boy
Vladimir Shurupovpigeon-fancier
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