Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo Detstvo)

(96 min; 1962; b/w; English subtitles)

A film by Andrei Tarkovsky

Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice International Film Festival, 1962

Tarkovsky’s lyrical debut feature film, about a young orphan whose zealous desire to avenge the death of his parents spurs him on to increasingly dangerous espionage missions behind German lines