Ivan's Childhood
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 24, 2007
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nikolai Burlyayev | |
Performer: | Valentin Zubkov & Ye Zharikov | |
Directed by | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
Screenwriting by | Vladimir Bogomolov & Mikhail Papava | |
Story by | Vladimir Bogomolov | |
Director of Photography: | Vadim Yusov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The work in which the remarkable nature of [Tarkovsky's] talent first shone through.
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The Arts Desk
Rating: 5/5 --
No other director is simultaneously so precise and so otherworldly.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
The surrealism of Solaris, the spatial experimentation of Stalker, the psychological insight of Mirror, these are all visible if not fully developed in Ivan's Childhood.
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CineVue
[A] subdued depiction of warfare as mostly a lot of waiting around for brief explosive action... The orphan kid - who several times describes himself as 'jittery' - is a more openly shell-shocked version of all the adults around him.
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Flick Filosopher
5 stars out of 5 -- Its pure audacity and visual beauty are electrifying...it boasts one of the great opening dream sequences in movie history.
The Guardian
While the emotional weight of Ivan is clear from the first frames -- Tarkovsky doesn't stray from making us feel the pain of Ivan's world -- there is that sense of music the director is so intent on conveying.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Tarkovsky pays full attention to the squalor and pity of war but never loses his sense of poetry.
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Independent (UK)
Product Description:
Visionary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's first film, MY NAME IS IVAN, is a powerhouse of visual and emotional impact and a portend of many themes Tarkovsky would develop throughout his legendary career. Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) is a 12-year-old boy roaming the destroyed landscapes of World War II Russia along the German front. Between Ivan's ecstatic dreams of his missing family and his mud-and-blood-encrusted reality, the viewer learns that Ivan's father, mother, and sister were killed by Germans and that since then he has gone into service as an intelligence scout for the Russian army.
Ivan's shocking bloodthirsty hunger for revenge is juxtaposed with the innocence and earthbound lyricism of his dreams and memories, creating a portrait of a stolen childhood and a bleak future. Protected and loved by his makeshift family of stoic army officers, Ivan resists being taken out of the army and forces his way back into another scouting mission, putting himself directly in the line of fire. Tarkovsky underscores this wartime drama with a compelling poetic vision through the use of evocative black-and-white cinematography as well as stunning sound and production design. Each element plays a significant part in this brilliant film, based on Vladimir Bogomolov's novel IVAN.
Ivan's shocking bloodthirsty hunger for revenge is juxtaposed with the innocence and earthbound lyricism of his dreams and memories, creating a portrait of a stolen childhood and a bleak future. Protected and loved by his makeshift family of stoic army officers, Ivan resists being taken out of the army and forces his way back into another scouting mission, putting himself directly in the line of fire. Tarkovsky underscores this wartime drama with a compelling poetic vision through the use of evocative black-and-white cinematography as well as stunning sound and production design. Each element plays a significant part in this brilliant film, based on Vladimir Bogomolov's novel IVAN.
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