"Pete on the Way to Heaven" (Petya po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoe)

About movie

The year is 1953, in the small northern town of Kandalaksha. A lot of construction is going on near the GULAG camp. The town’s fool, Petya, likes to pretend that he is a real militiaman serving and guarding, and that he is the real inspector of the traffic police. He has a formal baldric and militiaman’s cap, and in his real holster there is a gun – it makes no difference that it is made out of wood. Nobody wants to talk him out of this harmless encroachment for power. When a convict escapes from the camp, Petya, together with alarmed soldiers and guards, set out for the chase. The film was awarded the highest honor, the Golden Saint Georgiy, at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.

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