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{{Infobox film
| name = Wild Pigeon
| image = Wild Pigeon (film).jpg
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| director =[[Sergei Solovyov]]
| writer =
| starring =
| music = [[Isaac Schwartz]]
| cinematography = [[Yuri Klimenko]]
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| released = {{Film date|1986}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
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'''''Wild Pigeon''''' ({{lang-ru|Чужая белая и рябой|Chuzhaya Belaya i Ryaboi}}, also known as ''Someone Else's White and the Speckled'' and ''The Stray White And The Speckled'') is a 1986 Soviet [[drama film]] written and directed by [[Sergei Solovyov]]. It was entered into the main competition at the [[43rd Venice International Film Festival]], in which it won the [[Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)|Special Jury Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Lietta Tornabuoni|title=ll francese Rohmer "Leone" a Venezia|newspaper=[[La Stampa]]|date=11 September 1986}}</ref> The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[59th Academy Awards]], but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref>

==Plot ==  
The film takes place in the autumn of 1946, in a small provincial town in western [[Kazakhstan]]. A local teenager Ivan Naydenov (Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko) nicknamed as "The Gray", is a passionate pigeon enthusiast who recklessly risking his life manages to catch a white dove which has unexpectedly appeared in the city. Other pigeon hobbyists of the city find out of The Gray's spoil and the dove hunting begins. Soon the thieves kidnap the pigeon from The Gray's pen at night. The Gray begins to search for and find the dove from the local "pigeon authority" – Kolya the Gypsy (Vladimir Steklov). The Gray cunningly recaptures his prey and realizing that the dove is still doomed releases it to freedom. All the events of the film unfold against the backdrop of a meager post-war life of the inhabitants of the town - a place of exile and evacuation.

==Cast==
*Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko as Ivan Naydenov "Gray"
*[[Aleksandr Bashirov]] as "Freak"
*[[Andrei Bitov]] as Pyotr Petrovich Startsev "Pepe" pianist, composer, ex-husband of Ksenia Nikolaevna
*Arkady Vysotsky as brother of "Duffer"
*Ilya Ivanov as Investigator Benjamin Jousse
*Tatiana Ignatova as spectator in the theater under the open sky
*[[Liubomiras Laucevičius]] as father of Ivan Naydenov
*Boris Ryakhovskiy as Rakov
*[[Ludmila Savelyeva]] as Xenia Nikolaevna Startseva, actress
*Anatoly Slivnik as Colonel Pylypenko
*[[Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov|Vladimir Steklov]] as Kolya's "Gypsy"
*Bapov Sultan as Murat, friend of Ivan Naydenova, a student of Pyotr Petrovich
*Vyacheslav Kuchanov as "Tushkan"
*Mikhail Levchenko (II) as "Joker"
*Sergey Mildenberger as   second brother of "Duffer"
*Boris Olehnovich as Martyn
*Andrey Filozov as Savitsky
*German Schorr as Misha Nelyubov

==See also==
* [[List of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0090845}} 
{{Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize}}
[[Category:1986 films]]
[[Category:1980s drama films]]
[[Category:Soviet films]]
[[Category:Soviet drama films]] 
[[Category:Russian-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Sergei Solovyov]]
[[Category:Films set in 1946]]
[[Category:Films set in Kazakhstan]]
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