Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up

Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up
Polish film poster
Directed by
Written by	Agniya Barto
Cinematography
Music by	Oleg Karavaychuk
Production company	Lenfilm Studio
Release date	2 November 1953
Running time	73 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up (Russian: Алёша Птицын вырабатывает характер, romanized: Alyosha Ptitsyn vyrabatyvaet kharakter) is a 1953 Soviet family comedy film directed by and starring , and Valentina Sperantova.^[1]

Synopsis[]

Third-grader Alesha Ptitsyn, a little schoolboy from Moscow, decides to radically change his life; do self-education, to get rid of the guardianship of strict parents and a scattered grandmother, to live according to a strict routine and not to succumb to temptation. Having created a new schedule of the day, Alyosha starts a new life; he wakes up and gets up by himself, does his morning exercises and goes to school. At this time, Alesha's grandmother at the station misses her childhood friend, who came to stay with her granddaughter. Alesha who accidentally meets them, decides to hold a city tour of Moscow for the guests in order to restore in their eyes a true representation of the hospitable Muscovites and to correct the misstep of his grandmother.

Cast[]

• as Alyosha
• as Alyosha grandma
• Valentina Sperantova as Grandmother Sima
• as Andrey
• as Natalya, Alyosha's mother
• Nadezhda Rumyantseva as Galya
• Roza Makagonova as Olga, student
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lt Sergeenko
• as Gena
• as Tikhon Ivanovich
• as Nikita, a friend of Alyosha
• Natalya Seleznyova as Sachenka (first film role)

References[]

External links[]

• Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up at IMDb

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