7.8
Forbidden Games
1952
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
May 9, 19621h 35mRU
7.8
827 votes
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.
Director
Andrei TarkovskyWhere to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
German
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N/A
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Production Companies
Tretye Tvorcheskoe ObyedinenieMosfilm
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6.0<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. Gryaznov (Nikolai Grinko), Capt. Kholin (Valentin Zubkov) and Lt. Galtsev (Evgeny Zharikov) would like very much to send him to a military academy to get him away from the front, especially as the final of…
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