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Ivan's Childhood ()

Ivanovo detstvo (original title)
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During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
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Ivan Bondarev (as Kolya Burlyaev)
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Leonid Kholin (as V. Zubkov)
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Galtsev (as Ye. Zharikov)
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Katasonov (as S. Krylov)
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Gryaznov (as N. Grinko)
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Old Man (as D. Milyutenko)
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Masha (as V. Malyavina)
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Ivan's Mother (as I. Tarkovskaya)
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Soldier with glasses (as A. Konchalovskiy)
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(as I. Savkin)
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(as V. Marenkov)
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Starshina (uncredited)

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Andrei Tarkovsky ... (as Andrey Tarkovskiy)
Eduard Abalov ... (uncredited) (fired)

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Vladimir Bogomolov ... (story "Ivan") (as V. Bogomolov)
 
Vladimir Bogomolov ... (screenplay) and
Mikhail Papava ... (screenplay)
 
Andrei Tarkovsky ... (screenplay) (uncredited)
 
Andrey Konchalovskiy ... (screenplay) (uncredited)

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Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov ... (as V. Ovchinnikov)

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Vadim Yusov ... director of photography

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Lyudmila Feyginova ... (as L. Feyginova)

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Evgeniy Chernyaev ... (as E. Chernyaev)

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Lyudmila Baskakova ... makeup artist (as L. Baskakova)

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Gleb Kuznetsov ... production manager (as G. Kuznetsov)

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Georgi Natanson ... assistant director (as G. Natanson)

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Werner Gottsmann ... poster artist : East Germany (uncredited)
Jan Lenica ... poster artist : West Germany (uncredited)

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Inna Zelentsova ... sound (as E. Zelentsova)

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Sergey Mukhin ... special effects (as S. Mukhin)
V. Sevostyanov ... special photographic effects

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Sergey Mukhin ... vfx artist

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Emin Khachaturyan ... conductor (as E. Khachaturyan)

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Edgar Smirnov ... script editor (as E. Smirnov)

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G. Goncharov ... military advisor
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Plot Summary

During World War II, 12-year old Ivan works as a spy on the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child. Written by Mattias Thuresson

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Also Known As
  • Иваново детство (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Ivan's Childhood (Ireland, English title)
  • Ivan's Childhood (Canada, English title)
  • Ivan's Childhood (India, English title)
  • Ivan's Childhood (Japan, English title)
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Trivia Tarkosvky shows real footage of occupied Berlin, including the charred corpse of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of propaganda, and the bodies of his six children murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945. See more »
Goofs When Kholin and Galtsev take Ivan across the river in the boat, a tree into the water falls near them. It is supposed to be because of the military action taking place, but it can be seen that the base of the tree has been sawn across in a straight line. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Moskovskaya elegiya (1990). See more »
Soundtracks Ne velyat Mashe See more »
Quotes Ivan's Mother: If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.
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