Ivan's Childhood

UPC: 715515024822

Studio: Criterion

Summary: This debut feature-length wartime drama by noted Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky was a remarkable introduction to a remarkable career. The poetic touch of Tarkovsky's hand and his measured pace is already evident as the tale of the young, twelve-year-old Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) evolves. Ivan is orphaned after his village is wiped out by an invading Nazi army and as a consequence, he ends up in a prison camp. The inventive lad escapes and is adopted by Captain Kholin (Valentin Zubkov), whose intention is to send the boy away to school. But Ivan is determined to help the Russian army and so he starts spying on the German forces. Because of his tender years he manages to pass freely back and forth behind enemy lines -- at least for awhile. This exemplary film won the top prize, the Golden Lion award at the 1962 Venice Film Festival and also won the Grand Prize at the 1962 San Francisco Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Category: War

Awards: Golden Lion – Venice International Film Festival Film Presented – Telluride Film Festival

Features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Video appreciation of director Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan's Childhood, featuring Vida T. Johnson, coauthor of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
New video interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev and cinematographer Vadim Yusov
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova and new translations, by Robert Bird, of "Between Two Films," Tarkovsky's essay about Ivan's Childhood, and "Ivan Willow," a poem by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky

Ivan's Childhood

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 07/24/2007

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 95 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) Russian

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Ivan's Childhood
1. Obscured [6:08]
2. Codes [8:51]
3. Reunited [6:38]
4. Orders [3:23]
5. Alone [6:56]
6. Masha [8:34]
7. Signs [4:19]
8. Fragments [6:51]
9. Vengeance [5:52]
10. Shelled [2:23]
11. Unexpected [5:11]
12. Necessities [5:30]
13. Flares [2:33]
14. Fallen [7:14]
15. Quiet [2:33]
16. Identities [3:55]
17. Family [4:59]
18. Bars [3:10]
1. Thaw [2:23]
2. Influences [3:35]
3. Apprenticeship [2:07]
4. Worlds [3:27]
5. Poetic [7:24]
6. Concrete [5:20]
7. Grays [5:59]

Cast and Crew: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov  Composer (Music Score) 
Andrei Tarkovsky  Director 
Nikolai Burlyayev  Actor 
Valentin Zubkov  Actor 
Yevgeny Zharikov  Actor 
Nikolai Grinko  Actor 
Valentina Malyavina  Actor 
Stepan Krylov  Actor 
D. Milyutenko  Actor 
Irina Tarkovskaya  Actor 
Andrei Konchalovsky  Actor 
Ivan Savkin  Actor 
Vladimir Marenkov  Actor 

Country: USSR