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Ivan's Childhood

1962 · 1h 35m · Not Rated Drama, War
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

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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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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.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times

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