RUSSIA · 1962

Ivan’s Childhood

Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Poetic Cinema childhood in wartime soviet military orphans coming of age espionage
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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.

Year1962
CountryRussia
DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky
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