The first full-length feature film by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
It caused a popular sensation in cinema world. The film was highly praised by the great 20th-century French writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It got various comments from prominent international cultural figures who admitted that the world had not yet seen such a powerful motion picture about war.
The 12-year-old Ivan’s childhood ended the day the Fascists shot his mother and sister right before his eyes. Ivan’s father was killed in the war. The orphaned boy joins an army detachment, becoming an elusive scout. Risking his life, he brings to his commanders invaluable information about the enemy. But one day he does not come back from his mission…



Awards:
• St. Mark’s Golden Lion at the Venice IFF, 1962
• Golden Gate Prize for Best Director at the San Francisco IFF, 1963
• Special Diploma at the Karlovy Vary IFF, 1970


Special Freatures:
• Documentary "Children of War"
• Interviews with the composer V. Ovchinnikov, cameraman V. Yusov, actor E. Zharikov
• Photo album
• Filmographies
• Coming on DVD

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Pervaya polnometrazhnaya kartina izvestnogo russkogo rezhissera Andreya Tarkovskogo. Ona vyzvala ogromnyj mezhdunarodnyj rezonans. Etu kartinu vysoko otsenil velikij frantsuzskij pisatel HH veka ZHan-Pol Sartr. Neodnoznachnye otkliki prihodili i ot krupnyh deyatelej kultury mnogih stran. Oni priznavali, chto takogo filma o vojne v istorii mirovogo kinematografa esche ne bylo.

…Detstvo 12-letnego Ivana zakonchilos v tot den, kogda u nego na glazah fashisty rasstrelyali mat i sestrenku. Otets malchika pogib na fronte. Ostavshis sirotoj, Ivan uhodit v voinskuyu chast i stanovitsya neulovimym razvedchikom. On s riskom dlya zhizni dobyvaet dlya komandovaniya bestsennye svedeniya o protivnike. No odnazhdy on ne vernetsya s zadaniya…

"V "Ivanovom detstve" ya pytalsya analizirovat... sostoyanie cheloveka, na kotorogo vozdejstvuet vojna. Esli chelovek razrushaetsya, to proishodit narushenie logicheskogo razvitiya, osobenno kogda kasaetsya psihiki rebenka...
On (geroj filma) srazu predstavilsya mne kak harakter razrushennyj, sdvinutyj vojnoj so svoej normalnoj osi. Beskonechno mnogo, bolee togo - vse, chto svojstvenno vozrastu Ivana, bezvozvratno ushlo iz ego zhizni. A za schet vsego poteryannogo - priobretennoe, kak zloj dar vojny, skontsentrirovalos v nem i napryaglos".
A. Tarkovskij

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