Starring Andrey Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, Nikolai Burlyaev, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, Evgeny Zharikov, Valentin Zubkov, Dmitry milutenko, Irina Tarkovskaya, Ivan Savkin, Vladimir Marenkov, Valentina Malyavina
The first full-length film by the famous Russian Director Andrey Tarkovsky. It caused a huge international response. This picture was highly appreciated by the great French writer of the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre. Mixed responses came from major cultural figures in many countries. They recognized that there had never been such a film about the war in the history of world cinema. ... The childhood of 12-year-old Ivan ended on the day when the Nazis shot his mother and sister in front of his eyes. The boy's father was killed at the front. Left an orphan, Ivan goes to a military unit and becomes an elusive scout. At the risk of his life, he gets invaluable information about the enemy for the command. But one day he won't come back from a mission…