Ivan’s Childhood
The debut feature by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the conflict began, Tarkovsky’s film remains one of the most jarring and unforgettable depictions of the impact of war on children.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview with film scholar Vida T. Johnson, coauthor of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
- New interviews with cinematographer Vadim Yusov and actor Nikolai Burlyaev
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova; “Between Two Films,” an essay by Tarkovsky on Ivan’s Childhood; and “Ivan’s Willow,” a poem by the director’s father, Arseny Tarkovsky
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview with film scholar Vida T. Johnson, coauthor of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
- New interviews with cinematographer Vadim Yusov and actor Nikolai Burlyaev
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova; “Between Two Films,” an essay by Tarkovsky on Ivan’s Childhood; and “Ivan’s Willow,” a poem by the director’s father, Arseny Tarkovsky
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Nikolai Burlyaev
- Ivan
- Valentin Zubkov
- Captain Kholin
- E. Zharikov
- Lieutenant Galtsev
- S. Krylov
- Corporal Katasonych
- Nikolai Grinko
- Gryaznov
- V. Malyavina
- Masha
- Irina Tarkovskaya
- Ivan's mother
- D. Miliutenko
- Old man
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Soldier with glasses
Credits
- Director
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written by
- Vladimir Bogomolov
- Written by
- Mikhail Papava
- Based on the novella Ivan by
- Vladimir Bogomolov
- Director of photography
- Vadim Yusov
- Assistant director
- G. Natanson
- Edited by
- L. Feiginova
- Production design
- Yevgeny Chernyaev
- Music
- Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
- Special effects
- V. Sevostyanov
- Special effects
- S. Mukhin
- Sound recordist
- E. Zelentsova
- Military adviser
- G. Goncharov
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A scene from Ivan’s Childhood
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