Ivano detstvo
USSR,
1962, 97 min
Shown in 1962
CREDITS
- dir
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Andrei Tarkovsky
- scr
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Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava
- cam
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Vadim Yusov
- editor
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Lydumila Feiginova
- mus
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Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
- cast
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Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Valentina Malyavina, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
- prod co
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Mosfilm
- source
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Mosfilm
- gga award
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Best Director, Andrei Tarkovsky: Feature Length Films
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COMMENTS
Andrei Tarkovsky in person.
OTHER
After the entire family of 12-year-old Ivan (Nikolay Burliaev) is killed by Germans, the boy decides to get revenge and becomes a Russian spy. Being such a young boy he is able to go places that other spies would never be able to reach. The story teeters on the edge between a true war horror story and a fantasy told partially in flashback. Young Ivan often day dreams of his mother who is no longer alive and her appearances make us question whether or not she is really there. A poetically directed antiwar film that also shows the beauty of the landscape.
FACTOID #219
Daniel Talbot, editor of Film: An Anthology , was the first recipient of the Mel Novikoff Award in 1988. Later he cofounded New Yorker Films, a distribution company that introduced many foreign language films to North American audiences. The Mel Novikoff Award, named after the pioneering San Francisco exhibitor, is given to an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema.
