Ivan's Childhood
A twelve‑year‑old orphan scout races behind enemy lines to deliver vital intel for the Soviet army, risking capture and death while forging fragile alliances in a brutal World War II front.
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During World War II, twelve-year-old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works as a scout for the Soviet army behind German lines and forms a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
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Edited by Lyudmila FeyginovaShot by Vadim YusovScored by Vyacheslav OvchinnikovDesigned by Evgeniy Chernyaev
Also known as
- Iwans Kindheitde
- Ivan's Childhooden
- La infancia de Ivánes
- L'Enfance d'Ivanfr
- L'infanzia di Ivanit
- Иваново детствоru
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24 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Nikolay Burlyaev
as Ivan Bondarev
Valentin Zubkov
as Leonid Kholin
Evgeniy Zharikov
as Galtsev
Yevgeni Zharikov
as Galtsev
Stepan Krylov
as Katasonov
Nikolay Grinko
as Gryaznov
Mykola Hrynko
as Gryaznov
Dmitri Milyutenko
as Old Man
Dmytro Milyutenko
as Old Man
Valentina Malyavina
as Masha
Irma Tarkovskaya
as Ivan's Mother
Irma Raush
as Ivan's Mother
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5Directors
1Writers
2Other crew
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