The Boy and the Pigeon
1961, Russian. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky & Yevgeni Ostashenko.
The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.
- Runtime
- 0h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 April 1961
- Original title
- Мальчик и голубь
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Andrei Konchalovsky
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The Boy and the Pigeon runs 19 minutes (0h 19m).
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The Boy and the Pigeon isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 April 1961. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Boy and the Pigeon?
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Who directed The Boy and the Pigeon?
The Boy and the Pigeon (1961) was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and Yevgeni Ostashenko and stars Nikolay Burlyaev, Vladimir Shurupov, Evgeniy Urbanskiy.