Ivan, a twelve-year-old boy, works as a spy. He easily crosses the enemy's boundaries in order to collect information. Three Soviet officers take good care of him.
Ivan's Childhood Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky is his gift to Cinema.The movie depicts the horrors of war how it had shattered many Russian lives.His style is seen depicting war through the eyes of a 12 year old child and his dreams which were about his past normal life shattered by the death of his mother.Monochrome delights deal with the tragedy of the war.
The elements of Tarkovsky's films like nature , religion, dreams are all captured beautifully by the camera.the film depicted the war through his memories at one moment he is with his mother and the next shot he is stalking some nazi soldier.The film says about Ivan's childhood is depicted largely by his memories.It has shown that how Ivan has survived the war Physically but Mentally he was changed forever.The movie is the screen adaption of the book Ivan by Russian writer Vladimir Bogomolov although a fictional story but based on facts.
For Tarkovsky's picture one has to know that what one doesn't work doesn't matter as the one does.The picture is staggering in the depictions of brutality on the mind and consciousness through Ivan and his adult counterparts and about how a time in life can be taken away in an instant.The movie examines a contrast difference between a idyllic past and present front line life.
It's truly one of the great works of Tarkovsky to watch.
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