Ivan's Childhood

Name: Ivan's Childhood
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1962
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 7.8

1962·Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky·3.9·1h 35m

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Drama War Soviet Union

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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“It's really quite a chilling– a very chilling film, but it's also incredibly moving and beautiful and tender in a way.”

Kristin Scott Thomas

Actor

“I remember the last shot of this film—the tracking shot towards the tree, and then the camera comes closer and closer and closer until it fills the screen completely black. One of the best endings of a film I've seen, or maybe the best one.”