Story Line
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.
Top Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev
Ivan
Valentin Zubkov
Kholin
Yevgeni Zharikov
Galtsev
Stepan Krylov
Katasonov
Mykola Hrynko
Gryaznov
Dmytro Milyutenko
Old Man
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Rating
7.8/ 10
Release Date
1962-05-09
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
DramaWar
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•9/1/2018<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 Eas...