I've Bought Myself a Father 1963

Overview

I've Bought Myself a Father is a 1963 family and comedy film directed by Ilya Frez and written by Volf Dolgiy. Released on April 28, 1963, in RU, the movie has a runtime of one hour and seventeen minutes. The film tells a story about a five-year-old named Dimka who decides to buy himself a father. The cast features Aleksei Zagorsky in the role of Dimka Odintsov, alongside Svetlana Ageeva as Vera Pavlovna, Vladimir Treshchalov as Andrei, Zinaida Naryshkina as the cashier, Olga Lysenko as Tonya Odintsova, Marina Gavrilko as the ice-cream vendor, Gennadi Frolov, and Anatoly Kasapov. Additional cast members include Vera Orlova. According to available descriptions, the film is an unusual and charming Soviet production about childhood, focusing on the small son of a single mother. Dimka feels left out at nursery school because other boys play at emulating their fathers, leading him to believe that when his mother bought him at the store, she did not have enough money to buy a father as well.