Ivan's Childhood

Name: Ivan's Childhood
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1962-05-09
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolay Grinko

Иваново детство (1962)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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Release date

1962-05-09

Country

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm, Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie

Genre

Drama, War

Budget

Box office

$22 619

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Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Actors

Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolay Grinko, Dmytro Milyutenko, Valentina Malyavina, Irma Raush, Andrei Konchalovsky, Vera Miturich
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikhail Papava

Producer

Gleb Kuznetsov

Camera operator

Vadim Yusov

Composer

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Artist

Evgeniy Chernyaev, Yevgeni Chernyayev

Audition

Editing

Lyudmila Feiginova
Whole Team (19)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Tarkovsky played the role of one of the soldiers.
The film inspired French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to write an essay.
The film was released in wide Soviet distribution with a delay of four years.
Initially, a different director was planning the film adaptation, with different actors, and the film crew was also different. However, at some intermediate artistic council, after viewing the filmed material, they concluded that the film was helpless, weak, and unnecessary. Then Tarkovsky unexpectedly appeared with a proposal to shoot a completely new film with the remaining money and within the remaining timeframe, on the condition of a complete rejection of the old concept, actors, and so on. In the end, only the scriptwriters – Bogomolov and Papava – remained, although their script was reworked by Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky.
Production period: June 15, 1961 – January 18, 1962.
According to Tarkovsky, as stated in his book 'Sculpting in Time', he did not consider Vladimir Bogomolov's novel particularly successful, but was confident that the short story format would be easier to adapt for film.
Tarkovsky asked Vladimir Vysotsky to audition for the role of Captain Kholin, but the artistic council, after reviewing Vysotsky's audition, decided that it was unsuccessful. As a result, Valentin Zubkov played the role of Kholin.
The film is based on Vladimir Bogomolov’s story “Ivan.”
A direct allusion to 'Ivan's Childhood' appears in Jarmusch's film 'Dead Man': the episode where Nobody and William Blake enter a birch forest is analogous to the episode with Captain Kholin and Masha.
The dreams used in 'Ivan's Childhood' are Tarkovsky's real dreams.