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Ivan's Childhood

1963·1h 35m·Not Rated
DramaWar
IMDb Rating
★ 8.0/10
43,553 votes

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Ivan's Childhood is a 1963 drama war movie, starring Nikolay Burlyaev, Stepan Krylov, Evgeniy Zharikov. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.0/10 from 43,553 votes and runs 1h 35m.

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Stars
Nikolay Burlyaev
Stepan Krylov
Evgeniy Zharikov
Valentin Zubkov
Details
1963-06-27
95 min
Movie
Not Rated
★ Soviet Union
★ Russian, German
Keywords
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