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"Ivan's Childhood" is a 2002 Russian drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The DVD features a black & white film in Russian with English subtitles, starring Yevgeni Zharikov, Valentin Zubkov, and Kolya Burlaev. It includes interviews with the actor Zharikov, the director of photography Vadim Yusov, and the composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov. The DVD also contains a featurette on children of war, a memory featurette, trailers, and has a run time of 91 minutes.
FeaturesBlack & White, Interviews With Actor E Zharikov Director Of Photography Vadim Yusov And Composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov\Children Of The War Featurette\Memory Featurette\Trailers, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureRussia
Additional InformationVisionary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's first film, MY NAME IS IVAN, is a powerhouse of visual and emotional impact and a portend of many themes Tarkovsky would develop throughout his legendary career. Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) is a 12-year-old boy roaming the destroyed landscapes of World War II Russia along the German front. Between Ivan's ecstatic dreams of his missing family and his mud-and-blood-encrusted reality, the viewer learns that Ivan's father, mother, and sister were killed by Germans and that since then he has gone into service as an intelligence scout for the Russian army.<BR>Ivan's shocking bloodthirsty hunger for revenge is juxtaposed with the innocence and earthbound lyricism of his dreams and memories, creating a portrait of a stolen childhood and a bleak future. Protected and loved by his makeshift family of stoic army officers, Ivan resists being taken out of the army and forces his way back into another scouting mission, putting himself directly in the line of fire. Tarkovsky underscores this wartime drama with a compelling poetic vision through the use of evocative black-and-white cinematography as well as stunning sound and production design. Each element plays a significant part in this brilliant film, based on Vladimir Bogomolov's novel IVAN.
ReviewsSight and Sound - ...Brilliant....What's striking is the way Tarkovsky combines the lyricism of MIRROR with a straightforward account of the nightmarish experiences of Soviet soldiers on the German front...
I saw this many years ago and it was good to se it again. It brings home the brutality of war and the suffering of people because of war - as if we needed that in this day & age!
"When wilt thou save the people, O Lord of mercy when? The people Lord, the people, not thrones & crowns, but MEN"
Ebenezer Elliott