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Ivan’s Childhood

Ivan’s Childhood

■ Basic Data

ItemContent
Year1962
CountrySoviet Union
DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky
CastNikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
GenreWar drama film

■ Title Language Table

LanguageTextRomanization
EnglishIvan’s Childhood
EspañolLa infancia de IvánLa infancia de Ivan
FrançaisL’Enfance d’IvanL’Enfance d’Ivan
DeutschIwans KindheitIwans Kindheit
PortuguêsA Infância de IvanA Infancia de Ivan
ItalianoL’infanzia di IvanL’infanzia di Ivan
РусскийИваново детствоIvanovo detstvo
中文(简体)伊万的童年
中文(繁體)伊凡的童年
한국어이반의 어린 시절Ivan-ui Eorin Sijeol
ไทย
Tiếng ViệtThời thơ ấu của IvanThoi tho au cua Ivan
Bahasa IndonesiaMasa Kecil IvanMasa Kecil Ivan
日本語僕の村は戦場だったBoku no Mura wa Senjō Datta

■ One-Line Definition

👉 A work that depicts a structure in which childhood innocence and wartime revenge collide within a landscape where memory, loss, and military necessity erase the child


■ Synopsis

A war-orphaned boy becomes a Soviet scout, carrying childhood memory and revenge into a battlefield that has already consumed his future.


■ RECIPE Tags

#DestroyedChildhood #WarAndMemory #ChildSoldier #RevengeAndLoss #InnocenceErased


■ Primary Axis

  • Entry: Childhood after irreversible loss
     Reason: The child’s identity is formed not by growth but by the destruction of family, home, and safety.
     Related Film: Forbidden Games
  • Middle: War turning the child into an instrument
     Reason: Military necessity absorbs the child’s trauma and turns survival into operational usefulness.
     Related Film: Come and See
  • Core: Memory as the last remains of innocence
     Reason: Childhood survives only as dream, image, and lost possibility against the machinery of war.
     Related Film: Grave of the Fireflies

■ Secondary Axes

  • Ruined world and moral collapse: War dismantles the boundary between adult violence and child existence.
     Related Film: Germany Year Zero
  • Sacrifice inside historical catastrophe: Personal loss is absorbed into a national trauma that gives no adequate return.
     Related Film: The Cranes Are Flying

■ Person

  • Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Cast: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov

■ Structural Tags

#DestroyedChildhood #WarAbsorption #MemoryRemnant


■ Attribute Tags

#SovietUnion #1962Film #WarDramaFilm

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