Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood)(My Name Is Ivan)(The Youngest Spy) (1962)
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This debut feature-length wartime drama by noted Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a remarkable introduction to a remarkable career. The poetic touch of Tarkovsky's hand and his measured pace is already evident as the tale of the young, twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) evolves. Ivan is orphaned after his village is wiped out by an invading Nazi army and as a consequence, he ends up in a prison camp. The inventive lad escapes and is adopted by Captain Kholin (Valentin Zubkov), whose
Apr 6, 1962 Wide
Jul 24, 2007
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Nikolai Burlyayev
Ivan -
Valentin Zubkov
Capt. Kholin -
Yevgeny Zharikov
Lt. Galtsev -
Nikolai Grinko
Col. Gryaznov -
Valentina Malyavina
Masha -
Stepan Krylov
Katasonych -
D. Milyutenko
Old Man -
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Andrey Konchalovskiy
Bespectacled Soldier -
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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.
Top CriticPairing [poetic] images with fragmented characters and Ivan's single-minded desire to get back in the fray, the result is disturbing and affecting.
It feels stylistically as fresh as if it had been made yesterday -- even to some very striking use of handheld camerawork. It's really something of a masterpiece.
The plot is straight out of the grayish, state-approved, thesis-tidy Ballad of a Soldier bin, but the landscapes and visions are Andrei Tarkovsky's and nobody else's
Even in this, his first feature, we see that Andrei Tarkovsky is compelled by memories of precious things.
Much more than a war film about a young boy, My Name Is Ivan is a pure film experience.
Leaves us with a haunting vision of war and what it does to children.
Tarkovsky deviated from the conventional dictums of Socialist realism, providing an unusual combination of psychological realism and a haunting, surrealistic imagery of an adolescent, who was rubbed off his childhood.
Tarkovsky's most underrated film, simple but riveting.
[A] visually poetic portrait of a 12-year-old Russian orphan during WWII.
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Foreign Titles
- Iwans Kindheit (DE)
- Ivan's Childhood (UK)
