Ivan's Childhood

Name: Ivan's Childhood
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1962
Duration: 95 min

1h 35m · 1962 · Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · 4.2 / 5 on Letterboxd

Ivan's Childhood (1962) runs 1h 35m, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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.

Genres: Drama, War

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