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Ivan's
Childhood
(Ivanovo detstvo)
Release date April 1962
Country : Russia
Running time : 95 mins
Genre : War
Starring Nikolai Burlyayev
Screenplay by Vladimir Bogomolov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
A 12 year old boy works as a spy on the Eastern front, because he is small he can cross the German lines unnoticed.
An unusual war film seen from a child's point of view. The director's mastery of surreal imagery is well demonstrated and he also brilliantly uses newsreel techniques in the devastating finale.
(Ivanovo detstvo)
Release date April 1962
Country : Russia
Running time : 95 mins
Genre : War
Starring Nikolai Burlyayev
Screenplay by Vladimir Bogomolov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
A 12 year old boy works as a spy on the Eastern front, because he is small he can cross the German lines unnoticed.
An unusual war film seen from a child's point of view. The director's mastery of surreal imagery is well demonstrated and he also brilliantly uses newsreel techniques in the devastating finale.
This was Tarkovsky's first feature,he went on to become a regular in arthouse cinemas with films like Andrei Rublev and Solaris.
With one blow it annuls a whole cinematheque of the war films of all lands. Ivor Montagu, Sight and Sound
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