Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up (Russian: Алёша Птицын вырабатывает характер, romanized: Alyosha Ptitsyn vyrabatyvaet kharakter) is a 1953 Soviet family comedy film directed by Anatoly Granik and starring Viktor Kargopoltsev, Olga Pyzhova and Valentina Sperantova.
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Synopsis
Third-grader Alesha Ptitsyn, a little schoolboy from Moscow, decides to radically change his life; do self-education, to get rid of the guardianship of strict parents and a scattered grandmother, to live according to a strict routine and not to succumb to temptation. Having created a new schedule of the day, Alyosha starts a new life; he wakes up and gets up by himself, does his morning exercises and goes to school. At this time, Alesha's grandmother at the station misses her childhood friend, who came to stay with her granddaughter. Alesha, who accidentally meets them, decides to hold a city tour of Moscow for the guests in order to restore in their eyes a true representation of the hospitable Muscovites and to correct the misstep of his grandmother.
Cast
Viktor Kargopoltsev as Alyosha
Olga Pyzhova as Alyosha grandma
Valentina Sperantova as Grandmother Sima
Natalya Polinkovskaya
Yuri Bublikov as Andrey
Tamara Alyoshina as Natalya, Alyosha's mother
Nadezhda Rumyantseva as Galya
Roza Makagonova as Olga, student
Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lt Sergeenko
Sergei Podmasteryev as Gena
Aleksandr Mikhaylov as Tikhon Ivanovich
Borya Vasilev as Nikita, a friend of Alyosha
Natalya Seleznyova as Sachenka (first film role)