Ivan's Childhood (1962)

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

Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers

Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Tarkovsky

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