Ivan's Childhood (1962)
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.
Top billed cast
Nikolay BurlyaevIvan
Valentin ZubkovKholin
Yevgeni ZharikovGaltsev
Stepan KrylovKatasonov
Nikolay GrinkoGryaznov
Dmytro MilyutenkoOld Man
Valentina MalyavinaMasha
Irma RaushIvan's Mother
Andrei KonchalovskySoldier with Glasses
Ivan Savkin
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