Ivan's Childhood
DramaWar
7.83/10
|SU
|ru
|95 min
Release Date: 1962-05-09
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Tretye Tvorcheskoe ObyedinenieMosfilm
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CRCulver
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<i>Ivan’s Childhood</i>, released in 1962, was Soviet director's Andrei Tarkovsky first feature film. An adaptation of a short story by Vladimir Bogomolov set in World War II, its protagonist is a 12-year-old orphan (Nikolai Burlyaev) on the Eastern Front whose small size allows him to scout German positions undetected. Ivan's missions have been useful to the army, but officers Lt. Col. Gryaz...
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