Ivan's Childhood
May 09 1962
•2h 35m
•Drama, War
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
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Nikolay Burlyaev
Ivan
Valentin Zubkov
Kholin
Yevgeni Zharikov
Galtsev
Stepan Krylov
Katasonov
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