Children of Don Quixote (Russian: Дети Дон Кихота, romanized: Deti Don-Kikhota) is a 1966 Soviet comedy-drama film by Yevgeny Karelov.
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Plot
Story of an ordinary family at first glance. Large family physicians, three boys. The first a young painter (Victor — Vladimir Korenev), second (Dima — Lev Prygunov) is growing and looking for love, for a third (Yura — Belyaninov) life is a dark cinema hall with his friend, a classmate instead of school. Middle decides to marry, Jr. fled to Africa for the liberation of the oppressed blacks, senior decides that inept and seeking a way out of a creative crisis.
The father Pyotr Bondarenko (Anatoly Papanov) obstetrician in the hospital. His principle of life if you can do something for the people then do it without expecting reward, not hearing spiteful critics and scoffers. Only at the end of the film the viewer realizes that all his sons were adopted. They are children of former patients Bondarenko, who abandoned the child, and he was unable to convince them not to make this mistake, and therefore took responsibility for the fate of the children. At the final, doctor adopts a fourth boy for the same reason.
Cast
Anatoli Papanov as Pyotr Bondarenko, an obstetrician-gynecologist
Vera Orlova as Vera Bondarenko, plastic surgeon
Vladimir Korenev as Viktor Bondarenko, the eldest son, painter
Lev Prygunov as Dima Bondarenko, the middle son, a college student
Andrey Belyaninov as Yuri Bondarenko (some episodes voiced by Maria Vinogradova), the youngest son, a pupil
Natalya Fateyeva as Marina Nikolaevna, director of the theater, Victor's secret love
Nikolay Parfyonov as Athanasy Petrovich, chief accountant cinema
Natalya Sedykh as Motya, freckled girl, the Dima's bride
Natalya Zorina as Valya, a neighbor and Dima's classmate
Valentina Berezutskaya as Maria Ivanovna, nurse
Sasha Blagoveschensky as Andrey, Yuri Bondarenko friend
Zoya Vasilkova as Zoya Nikolaevna, Valya's and Andrey's mother
Maria Kremneva as nurse, fallen asleep on duty
Valentina Ananina as puerpera
German Kachin as Sazonov, the patient
Irina Murzaeva as old woman with a dog
Elvira Lutsenko as fat milf
Galina Volchek as episode
Release
Yevgeny Karelov's film was watched by 20.6 million Soviet viewers, which is the 891th result in the history of Soviet film distribution.