Beauty, poetry and sadness are certainly lodged in its brief dramatic span, to be seized and embraced by anybody who will give a compassionate mind to it.
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Ivan's Childhood
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 and cast
- Andrei Tarkovsky Director
- Nikolay Burlyaev as Ivan
- Valentin Zubkov as Captain Kholin
- Mykola Hrynko as Lieutnant Colonel Gryaznov
- Yevgeni Zharikov as Galtsev
- Stepan Krylov as Katasonov
- Vakentina Malyavina as Masha
- Dmytro Milyutenko as Old Man
- Valentina Malyavina Cast
- Irma Raush Cast
- Andrei Konchalovsky Cast
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