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Ivan's Childhood

Cast

Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolay Grinko, Yevgeni Zharikov View All


Crew

Andrei Tarkovsky (Director), Andrei Konchalovsky (Screenplay), Mikhail Papava (Writer), Vladimir Bogomolov (Writer) View All

Release: May 5th, 1962
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
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1 Ivan's Childhood (1962)
My take for what it's worth An effective use of imagery in this sort of war movie, there are no actual battle scenes but the whole movie is permeated by the war. We see the downed planes and bombed...

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kkl10
Early love and happy childhood with his mother were ephemeral miracles now conserved in his memory; the war has become the only reality for Ivan.
Thief
I chose Ivan's Childhood because it's his shortest film, but that doesn't stop it from being a great film and an impressive achievement, considering it's Tarkovsky's debut.


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