Ivan's Childhood (1962)

1962 · 95 min · Drama, War

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.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov and Mykola Hrynko.

Similar to Ivan's Childhood

• Peace to Him Who Enters (1961)
• The Wild Dog Dingo (1962)
• Commissar (1967)
• Clear Skies (1961)
• Once There Was a Girl (1944)
• The Ascent (1977)
• Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1977)
• Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960)
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
• The Return (2003)

Explore Ivan's Childhood as a constellation

Lyradrift plots Ivan's Childhood as a star at the centre of its own sky, with related films orbiting it as satellites, gathered from TMDB recommendations, shared themes, Wikidata links (same director, writer, series, source material or subject) and closeness of feel, then chosen for the strongest evidence — the closer and brighter a star, the more strongly it is related. Fly to any satellite to make it the new centre and keep exploring.

Explore Ivan's Childhood on Lyradrift →

This website uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.