Ivan's Childhood

7.819621h 35mReleased

Drama

War

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1962-05-09

Runtime1h 35m

LanguagesDeutschPусский

CountriesSoviet Union

Keywords

Videos

3 total

Trailer

Ivan's Childhood (Modern Trailer)

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Cast & Crew

Nikolay Burlyaev

as Ivan

Valentin Zubkov

as Kholin

Yevgeni Zharikov

as Galtsev

Stepan Krylov

as Katasonov

Mykola Hrynko

as Gryaznov

Dmytro Milyutenko

as Old Man

Valentina Malyavina

as Masha

Irma Raush

as Ivan's Mother

Andrei Konchalovsky

as Soldier with Glasses

Ivan Savkin

Reviews

CRCulver

Sep 1, 2018

6/10

<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 be…

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