
Ivan's Childhood Иваново детство
Ivan's Childhood, sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Soviet war drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Co-written by Mikhail Papava, Andrei Konchalovsky and an uncredited Tarkovsky, it is based on Vladimir Bogomolov's 1957 short story "Ivan". The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev along with Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, and Tarkovsky's then wife Irma Raush.
Plot
After a brief dream sequence, Ivan Bondarev, a 12-year-old Russian boy, wakes up and crosses a war-torn landscape to a swamp, then swims across a river. On the other side, he is seized by Russian soldiers and brought to the young Lieutenant Galtsev, who interrogates him. The boy insists that he call "Number 51 at Headquarters" and report his presence. Galtsev is reluctant, but when he eventually makes the call, he is told by Lieutenant-Colonel Gryaznov to give the boy a pencil and paper to make his report, which will be given the highest priority, and to treat him well. Through a series of dream sequences and conversations between different characters, it is revealed that Ivan's mother and sister (and probably his father, a border guard) have been killed by German soldiers. He got away and joined a group of partisans. When the group was surrounded, they put him on a plane. After the escape, he was sent to a boarding school, but he ran away and joined an army unit under the command of Gryaznov.
Awards
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author | Andrei Konchalovsky Andrei Tarkovsky Mikhail Papava Vladimir Bogomolov |
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award | Golden Lion |
contentLocation | Soviet Union |
director | Andrei Tarkovsky |
editor | Lyudmila Feiginova |
events | World War II |
genre | drama |
keywords | berlin boarding school border guard cut dead tree dream sequence execution room fight german soldier killed in action little girl maly trostenets extermination camp military school on the beach river run run away russian soldier surround third reich young boy |
musicBy | Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov |
nomination | International Submission to the Academy Awards |
productionCompany | Mosfilm |
theme | war |