Children of Don Quixote

Story of an ordinary family at first glance. Large family of physicians, three boys. The first is a young artist (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) is an obstetrician in the hospital. His principle of life is - 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 patientsof Bondarenko, who abandoned the children, 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.

• Anatoli Papanov as Pyotr Bondarenko, an obstetrician-gynecologist[1]
• 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[2]
• Natalya Fateyeva as Marina Nikolaevna, director of the theater, Victor's secret love
• Nikolai 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 (credited as Z. Chekulaeva)
• 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

Yevgeny Karelov's film was watched by 20.6 million Soviet viewers, which is the 891th result in the history of Soviet film distribution.[3]

• Children of Don Quixote at IMDb