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.
Writer: Ivan Stadnyuk
Director: Anatoliy Granik
Director of Photography: Dmitri Meskhiyev
Producer: Pyotr Sviridov
Maksim Perepelitsa
Sablin, Starshina
Marco Muha, a friend of Kondrat Perepelitsa, postman
Kondrat Perepelitsa
a neighbor of Maksim Perepelitsa
Musii, an old man
Assistant
Grishka, a friend of Maksim Perepelitsa