movie poster for IVAN'S CHILDHOOD

Flicks ID

9355

Cert

15

Running time

91 mins

Country

Format

VHW

IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (2007)

ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Plot

It is the height of the Second World War and twelve-year-old Ivan has lost his entire family to the Nazis, sworn to avenging their deaths he joins a Russian partisan regiment and later an army unit as a scout. The non-linear storyline follows his increasingly perilous missions through the forbidden lines and contrasts his childhood against the reality of life on the Eastern Front.