Ivan's Childhood

Summary: During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Release Date: June 27, 1963

Genres: Drama, War

Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky

, Eduard Abalov

Writers: Vladimir Bogomolov

, Mikhail Papava

, Andrei Tarkovsky

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm, Trete Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: Fox Lorber Home Video, Seagull Films, RUSCICO, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 22,168

International: $ 64,047

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12 year old 1940s air raid airplane wreckage american anti war apple arachnophobia archive footage art book artillery asking for forgiveness aspen auditory hallucination barbed wire bare butt bare chested boy barracks based on novella based on short story bathtub battlefield beach bell bell ringing berlin germany boat book boy boy dresses boy in a bathtub boy kisses a man on the cheek boy nudity boy soldier boy wears a swimsuit boy wears shorts brother sister relationship burned corpse captain capture chase child execution child soldier child spy childhood childhood memory chimney cigarette smoking climbing a fallen tree climbing a tree cobweb cold commander covert operation cross crossing a river crying boy cuckoo bird dead body dead child death of a child death of family devastated landscape dinghy directorial debut dnieper river dream dream sequence dripping water eastern front eating end of world war two enemy lines engraving espionage ex collegemate ex collegemate relationship execution facial scar falling into water falling tree fear feather female lieutenant female medical offier female soldier flare flashback flashlight food forest frontier game playing german german abroad german stereotype girl giving a toast gramophone great patriotic war gunfire gunner handshake hanging hiding behind a tree horse horse eats an apple identifying a dead body jumping into water kicking a can kiss knife lantern letter lie lieutenant colonel lighting a cigarette from a cigarette listening to music long take magazine male rear nudity man boy embrace man boy relationship man carries a boy in his arms man kisses a boy on the cheek man wears eyeglasses marsh military headquarters military school mirror mission mobile phone mother son relationship mud murder of family murder of father murder of mother murder of sister murder of wife nail naked boy narrated by character nazi soldier negative footage newsreel footage old man operation orphan partisan periscope pistol prologue promise pursuit rain reconnaissance recording red army reference to a boarding school reference to a border guard reference to a chidren's home reference to a military school reference to adoption reference to alexei tolstoy reference to burning books reference to fyodorovka reference to god reference to joseph goebbels reference to lice reference to martin luther reference to moscow russia reference to murder suicide reference to potassium cyanide reference to siberia reference to the trostyanets concentration camp reference to vasily surikov reflection in a mirror revenge reverse negative rifle river rooster rowboat running running away running on a beach russian soldier saying goodbye scout shooting sleeping slow cinema smiling snowing soviet military soviet soldier spy star stealing a boat stove stubborn child stubbornness subjective camera suicide surrealism surrogate father surrogate son relationship swamp swastika swimming thinness threat to whip throwing a stool timeframe 1940s tossing a man into the air trench truck two word title tying one's shoelaces vengeance voice over dialogue voice over narration wading through water war ruins washing one's face water well wehrmacht whistling windmill woods world war two writing on a wall year 1943 young spy

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